Oops! Wrong number ... -----Original Message----- From: owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu [mailto:owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu]On Behalf Of David Granger Sent: Friday, August 14, 1998 4:30 PM To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu Subject: RE: More top (...) lists ad nauseum Well, don't let it put you in a bad mood this weekend .... Please?!? I WILL do better! I promise! -----Original Message----- From: owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu [mailto:owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu]On Behalf Of Daniel Mahanty 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) The Book Broker / books@bookbroker.com