A to Z
Although nobody has seen fit to tag me for this particular meme making the rounds, here is my list:
- Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
- J. G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun
- Italo Calvino: If on a winter’s night a traveller
- Don DeLillo: Underworld
- Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- Neil Gaiman: American Gods
- Knut Hamsun: Hunger
- Christopher Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin
- James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
- Hector Malot: Nobody’s Boy
- Vladimir Nabokov: Pnin
- Michael Ondaatje: In the Skin of a Lion
- Thomas Pynchon: Vineland
- Raymond Queneau: Zazie in the Metro
- J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
- Leon Uris: Exodus
- Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth
- P. G. Wodehouse: # Carry on, Jeeves
- X…. no, I have to pass this one
- Marguerite Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian
- Emile Zola: Nana
Make your own, if you so desire.
April 27th, 2008 / Tags: books, meme, list / Trackback