RE: More top (...) lists ad nauseum
David Granger (grangdm@mail.auburn.edu)
Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:30:09 -0500
Well, don't let it put you in a bad mood this weekend .... Please?!?
I WILL do better! I promise!
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Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 11:00 AM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: More top (...) lists ad nauseum
For those of you sick of Top 100 lists, just disregard the following, which
I thought was pretty interesting, in a sick sort of way.
99 by Anthony Burgess
Burgess's list of the best 99 novels published in English
from 1939
to 1984
Achebe, Chinua - A Man of the People - (1966)
Aldiss, Brian - Life in the West (1980)
Amis, Kingsley - Lucky Jim (1954)
Amis, Kingsley - The Anti-Death League (1966)
Baldwin, James - Another Country (1962)
Ballard, J.G. - The Unlimited Dream Company (1979)
Barth, John - Giles Goat-Boy (1966)
Bellow, Saul - The Victim (1947)
Bellow, Saul - Humboldt's Gift (1975)
Bowen, Elizabeth - The Heat of the Day (1949)
Bradbury, Malcolm - The History Man (1975)
Braine, John - Room at the Top (1957)
Cary, Joyce - The Horse's Mouth (1944)
Chandler, Raymond - The Long Goodbye (1953)
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - The Mighty and Their Fall (1961)
Cooper, William - Scenes from Provincial Life (1950)
Davies, Robertson - The Rebel Angels (1982)
Deighton, Len - Bomber (1970)
Durrell, Lawrence - The Alexandria Quartet (1957)
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man (1952)
Faulkner, William - The Mansion (1959)
Fleming, Ian - Goldfinger (1959)
Fowles, John - The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)
Frayn, Michael - Sweet Dreams (1973)
Golding, William - The Spire (1964)
Gordimer, Nadine - The Late Bourgeois World (1966)
Gray, Alasdair - Lanark (1981)
Green, Henry - Party Going (1939)
Greene, Graham - The Power and the Glory (1940)
Greene, Graham - The Heart of the Matter (1948)
Harris, Wilson - Heartland (1964)
Hartley, L.P. - Facial Justice (1960)
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22 (1961)
Hemingway, Ernest - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Hemingway, Ernest - Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Hoban, Russell - Riddley Walker (1980)
Hughes, Richard - The Fox in the Attic (1961)
Huxley, Aldous - After Many a Summer (1939)
Huxley, Aldous - Ape and Essence (1948)
Huxley, Aldous - Island (1962)
Isherwood, Christopher - A Single Man (1964)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford - An Error of Judgement (1962)
Jong, Erica - How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake (1939)
Lessing, Doris - The Golden Notebook (1962)
Lodge, David - How Far Can You Go? (1980)
Lowry, Malcolm - Under the Volcano (1947)
MacInnes, Colin - The London Novels (1957)
Mailer, Norman - The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Mailer, Norman - Ancient Evenings (1983)
Malamud, Bernard - The Assistant (1957)
Malamud, Bernard - Dubin's Lives (1979)
Manning, Olivia - The Balkans Trilogy (1960)
Maugham, Somerset - The Razor's Edge (1944)
McCarthy, Mary - The Groves of Academe (1952)
Moore, Brian - The Doctor's Wife (1976)
Murdoch, Iris - The Bell (1958)
Nabokov, Vladimir - Pale Fire (1962)
Nabokov, Vladimir - The Defence (1964)
Naipaul, V.S. - A Bend in the River (1979)
Narayan, R.K. - The Vendor of Sweets (1967)
Nye, Robert - Falstaff (1976)
O'Brien, Flann - At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
O'Connor, Flannery - Wise Blood (1952)
O'Hara, John - The Lockwood Concern (1965)
Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Peake, Mervyn - Titus Groan (1946)
Percy, Walker - The Last Gentleman (1966)
Plunkett, James - Farewell Companions (1977)
Powell, Anthony - A Dance to the Music of Time (1951)
Priestley, J.B. - The Image Men (1968)
Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Richler, Mordecai - Cocksure (1968)
Roberts, Keith - Pavane (1968)
Roth, Phillip - Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Sansom, William - The Body (1949)
Schulberg, Budd - The Disenchanted (1950)
Scott, Paul - Staying On (1977)
Shute, Nevil - No Highway (1948)
Sillitoe, Alan - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
Snow, C.P. - Strangers and Brothers (1940)
Spark, Muriel - The Girls of Slender Means (1963)
Spark, Muriel - The Mandelbaum Gate (1965)
Styron, William - Sophie's Choice (1979)
Theroux, Alexander - Darconville's Cat (1981)
Theroux, Paul - The Mosquito Coast (1981)
Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
Updike, John - The Coup (1978)
Vidal, Gore - Creation (1981)
Warner, Rex - The Aerodrome (1941)
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Waugh, Evelyn - Sword of Honor (1952)
White, T.H. - The Once and Future King (1958)
White, Patrick - Riders in the Chariot (1961)
Williamson, Henry - A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951)
Wilson, Angus - The Old Men at the Zoo (1961)
Wilson, Angus - Late Call (1964)
Wouk, Herman - The Caine Mutiny (1951)
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