Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Is it possible to name your favorite fiction books?

My subjective, time-sensitive list of favorite fiction books (in no particular order):

  1. American Pastoral - Philip Roth
  2. The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
  3. Complete Stories - Flannery O' Connor
  4. Rock Springs - Richard Ford
  5. White Noise - Don Delillo
  6. Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
  7. If I Forget Thee Jerusaleum (The Wild Palms) - William Faulkner
  8. The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
  9. Asylum Piece - Anna Kavan
  10. Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre
  11. We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates
  12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  13. The Stranger - Albert Camus
  14. Journey to the End of the Night - Ferdinand Celine
  15. Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  16. Dubliners - James Joyce
  17. Empire Falls - Richard Russo
  18. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
  19. Swann's Way - Marcel Proust
Talk to me in six months and I'm sure the list will have changed.

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