James Wood's Best Books 1945-1985
Submitted by Slothrop33 on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 03:07
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- JG Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur
- Jane Bowles: Collected Works
- LP Hartley: The Go-Between
- Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead; Armies of the Night
- Walter Abish: How German Is It
- Harold Brodkey: Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
- Cynthia Ozick: The Messiah of Stockholm
- Art and Ardour
- William Burroughs: The Naked Lunch
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse 5
- Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems
- John Cheever: Collected Stories
- Falconer
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Angus Wilson: The Wrong Set
- Hemlock and After
- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
- Fred Exley: A Fan's Notes
- Randall Jarrell: Poetry and the Age
- Robert Lowell: Life Studies
- For the Union Dead
- Near the Ocean
- Bernard Malamud: The Assistant
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud
- William Trevor: Collected Stories
- James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
- Giovanni's Room
- Toni Morrison: Sula
- Beloved
- Henry Green: Loving
- Concluding
- Nothing
- Howard Nemerov: Collected Poems
- AS Byatt: Still Life
- VS Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
- In a Free State
- The Enigma of Arrival
- Tim O'Brien: If I Die In A Combat Zone
- Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
- Flannery O'Connor: A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems
- Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems
- Ezra Pound: Pisan Cantos
- John Barth: The Sotweed Factor
- Saul Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
- Seize the Day
- Herzog
- Humboldt's Gift
- John Berryman: The Dream Songs
- The Freedom of the Poet and Other Essays
- Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
- V
- Philip Roth: Goodbye, Columbus
- The Counterlife
- Reading Myself and Others
- JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
- Donald Barthelme: Sixty Stories
- Susan Sontag: Styles of Radical Will
- Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems
- Robert Penn Warren: All The King's Men
- Eudora Welty: Collected Stories
- William Carlos Williams: Paterson
- Edmund White: A Boy's Own Story
- Amy Clampitt: The Kingfisher
- Don DeLillo: White Noise
- WH Auden: The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
- Collected Poems
- Paul Bailey: Gabriel's Lament
- Angela Carter: The Magic Toyshop
- Nights at the Circus
- Bruce Chatwin: On The Black Hill
- James Fenton: The Memory of War
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies
- The Spire
- WS Graham: Collected Poems
- Raymond Carver: The Stories of Raymond Carver
- Martin Amis: Money
- The Moronic Inferno
- Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Graham Greene: The Heart of the Matter
- Jonh Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- Selected Poems
- Geoffrey Hill: Collected Poems
- Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
- Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Heritage and its History
- Muriel Spark: Memento Mori
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- Malcolm Lowry: Under the Volcano
- Walker Percy: The Moviegoer
- Phillip Larkin: Collected Poems
- Ian McEwan: First Love Last Rites
- The Cement Garden
- Andrew Motion: Secret Narratives
- Iris Murdoch: Under the Net
- The Bell
- The Nice and the Good
- George Orwell: 1984
- Collected Essay and Journalism (4 vols)
- Carson McCullers: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
- JG Ballard: Concrete Island
- Anthony Powell: A Dance of the Music of Time
- John Updike: Of the Farm
- The Centaur
- The Rabbit Quartet
- Hugging the Shore
- Jeanette Winterson: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
- Ted Hughes: Selected Poems 1957-81
- VS Pritchett: Complete Stories
- Complete Essays
- Craig Raine: A Martian Sends A Postcard Home
- Marianne Moore: Complete Poems
- Elizabeth Taylor: The Wedding Group
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children
- The Satanic Verses
- Tom Paulin: Fivemiletown
- Joseph Heller: Catch 22
- Christine Brook-Rose: The Christine Brook-Rose Reader
- Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers
- Alan Sillitoe: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
- Graham Swift: Waterland
- Iain Sinclair: Downriver
- Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited
- The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
- Through a Cloud
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Denton Welch: A Voice Through a Cloud
People like to attack Wood's; I greatly appreciated his "How Fiction Works."