25 favorite novels

Submitted by wshogren on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 10:10
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  1. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (1980)
  2. Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment (1866)
  3. Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy (1946-59)
  4. Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis (1915)
  5. Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote (1615)
  6. Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (1940)
  7. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
  8. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (1940)
  9. Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)
  10. Flann O'Brien: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
  11. George Orwell: 1984 (1949)
  12. Honore de Balzac: Pere Goriot (1835)
  13. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
  14. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1915)
  15. Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
  16. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
  17. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (1955)
  18. HG Wells: The Time Machine (1895)
  19. Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones (1962) {collection}
  20. Albert Camus: The Stranger (1942)
  21. Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky (1949)
  22. Patrick White: Voss (1957)
  23. William Faulkner: Light in August (1932)
  24. Kobo Abe: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
  25. JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1955) {Not exactly well written, but a sentimental favorite}
listology4707/01/2008

Have you read White's A Fringe of Leaves ?

wshogren07/01/2008

No, not yet. So far I've only read Voss and The Tree of Man. Based on those two, I've been impressed by White's prose style and his metaphysical depictions of the Australian outback. Looking at reviews on amazon.com, the premise of A Fringe of Leaves sounds interesting. I'll have to add it to my to-read list.

JohnnyW12/04/2008

I've been on the lookout for A Fringe of Leaves for awhile now, checking every time I'm in a used bookstore. No luck thus far. If it was ever in print in America, it must have gone out of print pretty quickly...

Johnny Waco

wshogren12/15/2008

Patrick White is sadly overlooked here in the US. I haven't tried looking for A Fringe of Leaves yet, but I've had trouble finding his stuff in the past at book stores. A shame, considering how much utter garbage can be found at your local Barnes and Noble, or wherever.
Actually, a quick glance at amazon.com shows that they have some used copies of A Fringe of Leaves for a decent price.