Reading List

I got this list from someone who took a class from “the expert on post-modernism” and this was the syllabus. I used it as my summer’s reading list last year:

At Swim Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
The Third Policeman, Flann O’Brien
Collected Short Stories, Isaac Babel
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
Other Inquisisitons, Jorge Luis Borges
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez
Correction, Thomas Bernhard (The Line Works)
Nog, Rudy Wurlitzer
Gimpel the Fool, Isaac B. Singer
The Assistant, Bernard Malamud (Collected Stories)
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Samuel Beckett works
Hunger, Knut Hamson
I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch (Homo Faber)
Man in the Holocene, Max Frisch
Seven Gothic Tales, Dinesen
Gogol’s Wife, Thomas Landolfi (Words in commotion. The Autumn story)
V, Thomas Pinchon
The Lime Twig, John Hawkes
Blood Oranges, John Hawkes
Little Disturbances of Man, Paley
Enormous Changes as the Last Minute, Paley
I, Etc., Susan Sontag
Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell
In the Heart of the Country, William Gass
Fiction and the Figures of Life, William Gass
The World Within the Word, William Gass (Omensetto’s Luck)
Advertisements for Myself, Mailer
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Journey to the End of the Night, Celine (Death…Installment Plan)
The Box Man, Kobo Abe (Kangaroo Notebook)
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke
Kaspar and Other Plays, Peter Handke
Nadja, André Breton
Chimera, John Barth
Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Black Tickets, Jayne Anne Phillips
Collected Stories, Peter Taylor (Summons, To Memphis)
The Pure and the Impure, Colette
Will You Please be Quiet, Please, Colette
Collected Stories, John Cheever
I Would Have Saved Them if I Could, Leonard Michaels (Going Places, Men’s Club)
Collected Stories, Eudora Welty
The Changing of America, Max Apple
Collected Stories, Flannery O’Connor
Mumbo Jumbo, Ishmael Reed
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth
Henderson the Rain King, Bellow (Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift)
The Coup, John Updike
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Manifestos of Surrealism, André Breton
Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
A Homemade World, Hugh Kenner
Letters, Flaubert
Sexual Perversity in Chicago, David Mamet
The Changling, Joy Williams (State of Grace, Taking Care, Breaking and Entering)
Going After Caccieto, Tim O’Brien (Things They Carried)
The Palm Wine Drunkard, Amos Tutola
Searching for Caleb, Ann Tyler
Thank You, Kenneth Koch (Collected Poems)
Collected Poems, Frank O’Hara
Rivers and Mountains, John Ashbery
Tragic Magic, Wesley Brown
Mythologies, Roland Barthes
The Pleasure of Text, Barthes
For a New Novel, Robbe-Grillet
Falling in Place, Ann Beattie

by using it as my summer reading list, I mean I bought several of them started 12, finished 5, and longed for the others.

I also read Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. Do read it, if you have the stamina and brain power.