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Top Ten Review - Conversational Reading
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Another bookmark-worthy website, Conversational Reading, considers "The Top Ten." The posting references a few author lists, including:
Paul Auster
1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Castle by Franz Kafka
9. Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies and The Unnamable
10. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Jonathan Franzen
1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
3. The Trial by Franz Kafka
4. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
7. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
10. Independent People by Halldor Laxness
Lydia Millet
1. J.R. by William Gaddis
2. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Narnia Chronicles) by C.S. Lewis
4. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
5. The Woodcutters by Thomas Bernhard
6. War With the Newts by Karl Capek
7. Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti
8. Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino
9. Masquerade and Other Stories by Robert Walser
10. Molloy by Samuel Beckett
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Ohh, luscious lists. I just read your interview with Lisa Guidarini and I'm completely captivated by your book.
I'm exceedingly excited to see one of my very favorite authors--Paul Auster--listed here. I will promptly read everything he recommends that I haven't yet picked up (7 of the 10).
estella,
Pray tell, what are the three you haven't pick up yet?
And what are your favorites by Auster?
- peder zane
Ha! I wish that was the case. In fact I meant that I've only read 3. And the saddest part? I have a Master's degree in literature (focus on Children's Lit and Graphic Narrative....dabbling in Contemporary American).
My favorite Auster, without a doubt, is The New York Trilogy. I also adore his memoirs had have read all of those at this point. My next title of his will likely be The Music of Chance.
Wonderful to find your blog. While I've never lived in Raleigh, I did live in Warsaw, NC for a bit--about 45 minutes outside of Raleigh, and I found myself there reasonably often.
*"and have read"...not "had have read."
Darn typos.