what should I read? and top 169 list.

Sun Aug 7 20:31:46 CDT 2005

I just want to know who read 'The Story of the Vivian
Girls ...' by Henry Darger.

--- kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions, everybody.  I've
> decided to read Ulysses, since I have nothing better
> to do with my life at the moment, followed, probably
> by the Murakami book. When and how was the
> below-mentioned top 169 list compiled?  I'd
> definitely vote for a lot of the books on the list,
> though I'd want to add a lot of others. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gentle <gentle_family at btinternet.com>
> Sent: Aug 5, 2005 11:31 PM
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Subject: Re: what should I read?
> 
> ps. It's just occured to me that I never actually
> put up the web page for 
> the
> P-List top books list. I'm probably not going to do
> it soon but here it is.
> And if you can't find something worth reading here
> then I wonder why you'd
> subscribe to this list...
> 
> The top 169 novels
>   1.. Gravity's Rainbow : Thomas Pynchon : 226
>   2.. Ulysses : James Joyce : 88
>   3.. Moby Dick : Herman Melville : 77
>   4.. The Recognitions : William Gaddis : 50
>   5.. One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Garcia
> Marquez : 50
>   6.. Mason & Dixon : Thomas Pynchon : 45
>   7.. JR : William Gaddis : 35
>   8.. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle : Haruki Murakami :
> 33
>   9.. The Magic Mountain : Thomas Mann : 30
>   10.. Pale Fire : Vladimir Nabokov : 29
>   11.. Lolita : Vladimir Nabokov : 28
>   12.. V : Thomas Pynchon : 27
>   13.. Molloy/Malone/Unnamable : Samuel Beckett : 27
>   14.. Tristram Shandy : Laurence Sterne : 25
>   15.. The Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie : 23
>   16.. Dhalgren : Samuel R. Delany : 22
>   17.. Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain : 20
>   18.. Absalom! Absalom! : William Faulkner : 20
>   19.. The Crying of Lot 49 : Thomas Pynchon : 20
>   20.. A la recherche du temps perdu : Marcel Proust
> : 19
>   21.. Midnight's Children : Salman Rushdie : 19
>   22.. Neuromancer : William Gibson : 18
>   23.. A Confederacy of Dunces : John Kennedy Toole
> : 18
>   24.. Ada : Vladimir Nabokov : 18
>   25.. Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy : 15
>   26.. Vineland : Thomas Pynchon : 15
>   27.. Foucault's Pendulum : Umberto Eco : 14
>   28.. The Book of the New Sun : Gene Wolfe : 14
>   29.. On The Road : Jack Kerouac : 13
>   30.. The Master and Margarita : Mikhail Bulgakov :
> 13
>   31.. Bleak House : Charles Dickens : 13
>   32.. Chimera : John Barth : 13
>   33.. Sometimes a Great Notion : Ken Kesey : 13
>   34.. You Bright and Risen Angels : William T.
> Vollmann : 12
>   35.. Death of Virgil : Hermann Broch : 11
>   36.. Independent People : Halldor Laxness : 11
>   37.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : Hunter S.
> Thompson : 11
>   38.. The Brothers Karamazov : Fyodor Dostoevsky :
> 11
>   39.. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller : Italo
> Calvino : 10
>   40.. The Naked Lunch : William S. Burroughs : 10
>   41.. Too Loud a Solitude : Bohumil Hrabel : 10
>   42.. A Scanner Darkly : Philip K. Dick : 10
>   43.. Oliver Twist : Charles Dickens : 10
>   44.. Under the Volcano : Malcolm Lowry : 9
>   45.. Madame Bovary : Gustave Flaubert : 9
>   46.. The Tin Drum : Gunter Grass : 9
>   47.. Winter's Tale : Mark Helprin : 9
>   48.. The Castle : Franz Kafka : 9
>   49.. The Man Without Qualities : Robert Musil : 9
>   50.. Candide : Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire :
> 9
>   51.. Blood Meridian : Cormac McCarthy : 9
>   52.. Auto-da-Fe : Elias Canetti : 9
>   53.. Roadside Picnic : Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky
> : 9
>   54.. The Red and the Black : Stendhal : 9
>   55.. Count Zero : William Gibson : 9
>   56.. The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton : 9
>   57.. Cat's Cradle : Kurt Vonnegut : 8
>   58.. Watt : Samual Beckett : 8
>   59.. Two Girls, Fat and Thin : Mary Gaitskill : 8
>   60.. The Sot-Weed Factor : John Barth : 8
>   61.. Nog : Rudolph Wurlitzer : 8
>   62.. Cryptonomicon : Neal Stephenson : 8
>   63.. A Book of Common Prayer : Joan Didion : 8
>   64.. Portrait of a Lady : Henry James : 8
>   65.. Omon Ra : Victor Pelevin : 7
>   66.. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch :
> Philip K. Dick : 7
>   67.. Fathers and Sons : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev :
> 7
>   68.. Hall of Mirrors : Robert Stone : 7
>   69.. Farewell My Lovely : Raymond Chandler : 7
>   70.. The Stars My Destination : Alfred Bester : 7
>   71.. USA : John Dos Passos : 7
>   72.. Ragtime : E. L. Doctorow : 7
>   73.. Journey to the West : Anthony Yu : 7
>   74.. Ubik : Philip K. Dick : 7
>   75.. The Bridge Trilogy : William Gibson : 7
>   76.. To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee : 7
>   77.. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test : Thomas
> Wolfe : 7
>   78.. Ficciones : Jorge Luis Borges : 7
>   79.. Light in August : William Faulkner : 7
>   80.. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress : Robert
> Heinlein : 6
>   81.. The Man with the Golden Arm : Nelson Algren :
> 6
>   82.. The Night (Alone) : Richard Meltzer : 6
>   83.. Rabbit stories : John Updike : 6
>   84.. A Hero of Our Time : Mikhail Lermontov : 6
>   85.. House of Sleeping Beauties : Yasunari
> Kawabata : 6
>   86.. Underworld : Don DeLillo : 6
>   87.. The Power and the Glory : Graham Greene : 6
>   88.. The Counterlife : Philip Roth : 6
>   89.. The Story of the Treasure Seekers : Edith
> Nesbit : 5
>   90.. Always Coming Home : Ursula LeGuin : 5
>   91.. Catch-22 : Joseph Heller : 5
>   92.. Crime and Punishment : Fyodor Dostoevsky : 5
>   93.. Dune : Frank Herbert : 5
>   94.. Dreams of Leaving : Rupert Thompson : 5
>   95.. World's End : T.C. Boyle : 5
>   96.. Wittgenstein's Mistress : David Markson : 5
>   97.. Memories of the Ford Administration : John
> Updike : 5
>   98.. Carpenter's Gothic : William Gaddis : 5
>   99.. Lord of Light : Roger Zelazney : 5
>   100.. The Alexandria Quartet : Lawrence Durrell :
> 5
>   101.. Life of Pi : Yann Martel : 4
>   102.. Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance :
> Richard Powers : 4
>   103.. The Sound and the Fury : William Faulkner :
> 4
>   104.. The Cairo Trilogy : Naguib Mahfouz : 4
>   105.. The Man Who Was Thursday : G. K. Chesterton
> : 4
>   106.. Vurt : Jeff Noon : 4
>   107.. The Glass Bead Game : Herman Hesse : 4
>   108.. Don Quixote : Cervantes : 4
>   109.. Parade's End : Ford Madox Ford : 4
>   110.. Enderby, The Poet : Anthony Burgess : 4
>   111.. The Scarlet Letter : Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4
>   112.. Libra : Don DeLillo : 4
>   113.. Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison : 4
>   114.. Harlot's Ghost : Norman Mailer : 4
>   115.. Wise Blood (& Complete Stories) : Flannery
> O'Connor : 4
>   116.. The Border Trilogy : Cormac McCarthy : 3
>   117.. Warlock : Oakley Hall : 3
>   118.. The Diamond Age : Neal Stephenson : 3
>   119.. The Moviegoer : Walker Percy : 3
>   120.. Giles Goat-Boy : John Barth : 3
>   121.. Infinate Jest : David Foster Wallace : 3
>   122.. Beautifull Losers : Leonard Cohen : 3
>   123.. After The Banquet : Yukio Mishima : 3
>   124.. Beloved : Toni Morrison : 3
>   125.. Death On The Installment Plan : Louis
> Ferdinand-Celine : 3
>   126.. The Things They Carried : Tim O'Brian : 3
>   127.. White Jazz : James Ellroy : 3
>   128.. The Trial : Franz Kafka : 3
>   129.. Frank's World : George Mangles : 3
>   130.. Metamorphosis (& Complete Works) : Franz
> Kafka : 3
>   131.. The Big Sleep : Raymond Chandler : 2
>   132.. Love in the Time of Cholera : Gabriel Garcia
> Marquez : 2
>   133.. Invisible Cities : Italo Calvino : 2
>   134.. Call It Sleep : Henry Roth : 2
>   135.. Quo Vadis : Henryk Sienkiewicz : 2
>   136.. Snow Crash : Neal Stephenson : 2
>   137.. What a Carve Up : Jonathan Coe : 2
>   138.. Revolutions Trilogy : John Banville : 2
>   139.. Geek Love : Katherine Dunn : 2
>   140.. Disgrace : J.M. Coatzee : 2
>   141.. Weave World : Clive Barker : 2
>   142.. Something Wicked This way Comes : Ray
> Bradbury : 2
>   143.. The War at the End of the World : Vargas
> Llosa : 2
>   144.. Slaughterhouse Five : Kurt Vonnegut : 2
>   145.. The Gold Bug Variations : Richard Powers : 2
>   146.. The Goodbye Look : Ross MacDonald : 2
>   147.. The Lord of the Rings : J.R.R. Tolkien : 2
>   148.. The Confidence Man : Herman Melville : 2
> 
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