Top ten list

D. Romanski darjr at shore.net
Tue Feb 11 22:07:52 CST 1997


Like Gary Elshaw, I guess my lurking license is hereby revoked, too.
This type of listing thing is against my nature, but I had to include my
top ten of books ones of I've actually read.  In no particular order:

 1) The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
 2) Notes from Underground--Fyodor Dostoevsky
 3) On the Road--Jack Kerouac
 4) Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain
 5) Invisible Man--Ralph Ellison
 6) Steppenwolf or The Glass Bead Game (tie)--Hermann Hesse
 7) Look Homeward, Angel--Thomas Wolfe
 8) Walden--Henry David Thoreau
 9) Ulysses--James Joyce
10) Gravity's Rainbow--Thomas Pynchon


Honorable mention:

Dubliners--Joyce
Nine Stories--Salinger
The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crying of Lot 49--TRP
The Short Stories of Ring Lardner
The Woman in the Dunes--Kobo Abe
Seize the Day--Bellow (didn't like Augie March)
Heart of Darkness--Joseph Conrad


D. Romanski



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