Top Ten

[Mike Beiderbecke]

My two cents worth for fiction. Took me long enough to do this, music, films
and non-fiction will take even longer.

1. Gravity's Rainbow, TRP
2. You Bright & Risen Angels, William T Vollmann
3. Recognitions, William Gaddis
4. Hall of Mirrors, Robert Stone
5. Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Haruki Murakami
6. Dreams of Leaving, Rupert Thompson
7. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, Richard Powers
8. Frank's World, George Mangles
9. Dhalgren, Samuel R Delany
10. Waiting for the End of The World, Madison Smartt Bell

All by living white guys. Except Gaddis, who isn't living. And Delany, who
is black. And maybe Mangles, 'cause nobody knows anything about him.

And a few that were on the bubble;
Our Beautiful Heroine, Jacques Roubaud
Disappearances, William Wiser
Sunlight Dialogues, John Gardner
Shrine at Altimira, John L'herueux
Arabian Nightmare, Robert Irwin
Assignment, Frederick Durrenmatt
Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space, Kathryn Kramer
Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
And it could go on and on.

Regards

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