Top Ten
John Bailey
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Sun Sep 19 22:59:10 CDT 2004
1. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
2. V. - Thomas Pynchon
3. The Sot-Weed Factor - John Barth
4. Ragtime - E. L. Doctorow
5. The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
6. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
7. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
8. The Trial - Franz Kafka
9. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
10. The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the
Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave
Rebellion - Henry Darger
Just going by the re-read/pleasure axioms. GR is a 'better' book than any of
these.
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1. Top Ten Short Story Collections (single author)
2. Top Ten Short Story Collections (various authors)
3. Top Ten Pseudonymous/Anonymous Novels
4. Top Ten Mythical or Commercially Unavailable Works
5. Top Ten Grammar Reference Guides
6. Top Ten B-Sides
7. Top Ten Playscripts/Performance Works
8. Top Ten Novels Featuring Aging White Male Authors in Central Roles
9. Top Ten Life-Affirming Lessons to Be Learned From Thomas Pynchon's Novels
10. Top Ten Things Better Than GR
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