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Deron Bauman James Joyce, Finnegans Wake Thomas Bernhard, Correction William Vollman, The Ice-Shirt Diane Williams, The Stupefaction Gary Lutz, I Looked Alive Guy Davenport, DaVinci's Bicycle Paul Metcalf, Genoa Alan Garner, Thursbitch Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian (pgs 5 - 165)
Harold Bowes Charles Willeford, Cockfighter Jim Thompson, The Getaway James Cain, Double Indemnity Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Roald Dahl, The Best of Roald Dahl Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Robert Castle Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos Mikhail Bulgakov, Heart of a Dog Louis Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night Francis Ponge, Soap Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard Robert Coates, The Eater of Darkness Don DeLillo, The Names Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine Raymond Queneau, The Bark Tree
Brian Evenson Samuel Beckett, Molloy Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Leonard Sciascia, Day of the Owl &/or Equal Danger Jean Echenoz, I'm Gone Jean-Phillipe Toussaint, Monsieur Thomas Bernhard, Correction Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles &/or The Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass Friederich Durrenmatt, The Assignment &/or The Pledge Jose Saramago, Blindness Kobo Abe, Secret Rendezvous &/or The Box Man Alexander Kluge, Attendance List for a Funeral
Michael Kimball B.S. Johnson, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry Juan Goytisolo, Virtues of the Solitary Bird Meredith Daneman, The Favourite Lydia Davis, The End of the Story David Markson, This Is Not a Novel Sam Lipsyte, Home Land Will Eno, The Flu Season Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter Amos Tutuola, The Palm-Wine Drinkard Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder Daren King, Boxy an Star
Marc Kipniss Nikolai Gogol, The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol Charles Baudelaire, Prose Poems Daniil Kharms & Alexander Vvedensky, The Man with the Black Coat: Russia's Literature of the Absurd Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories Robert Walser, Selected Stories Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn; Trout Fishing in America Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems Yasunari Kawabata, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories Rudy Wilson, The Red Truck Robert Olen Butler, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain William Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories Mark Strand, Mr and Mrs Baby and Other Stories Chris Offut, Kentucky Straight Elizabeth Cook, Achilles Breece D'J Pancake, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts Lydia Millet, My Happy Life
Norman Lock Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939 Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time Par Lagervist, The Sibyl Gordon Lish, Peru Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother Cees Nooteboom, In the Dutch Mountains Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace
Christopher Mulrooney Samuel Beckett, Disjecta Sidney Lanier, Poems Ray Bradbury, Stories Erwin Panofksy, ed., tr. & annot., Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures D.S. Robertson, Greek & Roman Architecture George Bernard Shaw, Plays and Players: Essays on the Theatre Harold Pinter, Five Screenplays Salvador Dalí, 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship Robinson Jeffers, Dear Judas Mark Twain, Roughing It Sylvia Plath, Ariel
Bryce Newhart Stacey Levine, Dra John Hawkes, The Cannibal and The Owl (pretty much all the early stuff) Amanda Filipacchi, Vapor Stanislaw Lem, The Star Diaries and Cyberiad Gene Wolfe, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories Leonora Carrington, House of Fear: Notes from Down Below and The Seventh Horse and Other Tales Robert Gluck, Margery Kempe Rick Demarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry and The Coming Triumph of the Free World Mary Overton, The Wine of Astonishment (although it's been a while) Kobo Abe, Beyond the Curve Mark Richard, The Ice at the Bottom of the World and Fishboy Frank Stanford, Conditions Uncertain and Likely to Pass Away Jack Handy, Deep Thoughts series (five or so short books) Gabe Hudson, Dear Mr. President Lynda Barry, Cruddy Virnor Vinge, Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky (I should probably qualify these as more or less genre space-opera science fiction, but as far as entertaining, intricate, well-written "intergalactic" adventures that defy most of the genre cliches and are genuinely original, these are the best I've read. Lem and Wolfe are too literary to need qualification in terms of the "speculative" genre.) The poetry journal Conduit
Dawn Raffel Dante, Inferno Leo Tolstoy, Confession (and everything else he wrote) Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy, Suttree Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear it Away Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Christine Schutt, Florida Victoria Redel, Swoon Sheila Kohler, Children of Pithiviers Ben Marcus, Notable American Women Diane Williams, Romancer Erector Noy Holland, The Spectacle of the Body Kate Bernheimer, Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital Rick Whitaker, Assuming the Position
Kathryn Rantala Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Alessandro Barrico, Silk Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover (I re-read this recently and the beginning reads with the energy of a runaway train!) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein, Paris France A.S. Byatt, Possession George Perec, Species of Spaces
B. Renner Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Alan Garner, The Stone Book Quartet Lord Byron, Don Juan Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph/The Aleph Manuel Rivas, ¿Qué me quieres, amor? (Some of these stories are available in English in the collection Do You Love Me?) Carlos Ruíz Zafón, La sombra del viento /The Shadow of the Wind Guy Davenport, Da Vinci's Bicycle Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower Yannis Ritsos, Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Tom Stoppard, Arcadia Euripides, The Bacchae
M Sarki Gordon Lish, ZimZum Frank Lentricchia, Edge of Night Casey Finch, Harming Others Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable Thomas Bernhard, Concrete Jack Gilbert, Monolithos Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus Alphonso Lingis, Deathbound Subjectivity Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
Ken Sparling Christina Stead, The Man Who Loved Children William Saroyan, The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills Paul Davies, Truth Tony Burgess, Caesarea Ursula LeGuin, City of Illusion Golda Fried, Darkness Then a Blown Kiss Lydia Eugene, Burnt Orange Lipstick Jonathan Goldstein, Lenny Bruce is Dead Geoff Brown, Notice Derek McCormack, Grab Bag Deborah Solomon, Utopia Parkway: the life and work of Joseph Cornell Lee Tulloch, Fabulous Nobodies Jonathan Ames, I Pass Like Night
Thomas Wooten Thomas Bernhard, Concrete Donald Barthelme, Paradise Samuel Beckett, Watt Walker Percy, The Moviegoer Mark Strand, Dark Harbor Lydia Davis, Break It Down Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle John Hawkes, Death, Sleep and the Traveler Don DeLillo, White Noise Walter Abish, How German Is It Barry Hannah, Airships Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier Max Frisch, Homo Faber Peter Handke, Three by Peter Handke Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Angela Woodward Jose Saramago, Blindness Thomas Bernhard, Wittgenstein's Nephew David Goodis, Street of No Return Charles Willeford, The High Priest of California J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Edward Leslie, Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls J.G. Ballard, Crash Apsley Cherry-Gerard, The Worst Journey in the World Martin Walser, Runaway Horse Chester Himes, If He Hollers, Let Him Go Elizabeth Bowen, Death of the Heart Anita Desai, In Custody Bruce Duffy, The World As I Found It Stanislaw Lem, Solaris William Gaddis, Carpenter's Gothic Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower |
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