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[pynchonoid]

Sorry, this first paragraph is a response to the list
Mark posted:
> Those would all be mine, too, although I could
> quibble
> a bit if required (I wouldn't include the Illiad
> because it's not a novel; I might suggest House of
> the
> Seven Gables instead of The Scarlet Letter; I
> wouldn't
> include those sci-fi novels). 

> 
> Here are my all-time favorites, not in any
> particular
> order once past the top 2.  My primary criterion is
> novels that demand and sustain multiple readings: 
> all
> of these have drawn me back for a second reading,
> some
> of them I've read a third time, the rest draw me
> back
> for readings beyond that.
> 
> Moby Dick
> Gravity's Rainbow
> Journey to the West (Anthony Yu translation)
> Story of the Stone (aka Dream of the Red Chamber) 
> A la recherche du temps perdu
> Madame Bovary 
> L'education sentimentale
> Le rouge et le noir (Stendhal)
> Voyage au bout de la nuit (Celine)
> Les filles du feu (Nerval)
> Les miserables
> Brothers Karamozov
> Crime and Punishment
> Dead Souls (Gogol)
> Don Quixote
> Bleak House 
> Thousand Cranes (Kawabata)
> House of Sleeping Beauties (Kawabata)
> Catch-22
> Under the Volcano
> Lolita
> 100 Years of Solitude
> Huckleberry Finn
> Great Gatsby
> The Sound and the Fury
> 1984
> V.
> Mason & Dixon
> The Crying of Lot 49
> Vineland
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