E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearian grammar
Eric Ambler, early novels
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jersusalem
Herbert Asbury, Gangs of New York, Barbary Shore, The Latin
Quarter
W. H. Auden, poetry
J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World, short stories
Russell Banks, Continental Drift
George Barker, The True Confession of George Barker
Charles Beard, any history book
Thomas Berger, Sneaky People, The Feud, Regiment of Women,
Killing Time
Andrew Bergman, Hollywood and LeVine, The Big Kiss-Off of 1944
Theodore M. Bernstein, any books on English usage
Alfred Bester
Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne, Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
Fredric Brown, mysteries and science fiction
Jan Harold Brunvand, books on urban folklore
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, 99 Novels
John Horne Burns, The Gallery
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Truman Capote, short stories, In Cold Blood
Camilio José Cela, The Hive
Raymond Chandler, mysteries
Anton Chekhov, short stories
Richard Condon, Winter Kills, The Manchurian Candidate, The Whisper of the Axe
Evan S. Connell, Jr., Mrs. Bridge, Mr. Bridge
Andrew Crumey, Music, in a Foreign Language
e. e. cummings, Him
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
Terence Des Pres, The Survivor
Philip K. Dick
John Dos Passos, U.S.A.
Friederich Dürrenmatt
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Otto Eisenschiml, The Hidden Face of the Civil War, Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
James Ellroy, The Big Nowhere
Frederick Engels
Bergen Evans, The Spoor of Spooks, The Natural History of Nonsense
Manny Farber, film criticism
James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan, A Note on Literary Criticism
Kenneth Fearing, poetry, The Big Clock
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
C. S. Forester, The General
Paula Fox, Desperate People
Martin Gardner, essays
David Gates, Jernigan
Michael Gold, Jews Without Money
Paul Goodman, poetry
Stephen Jay Gould, essays
U.S. Grant, The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, The Quiet American
Dashiell Hammett, mysteries
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go
P. D. James, Children of Man
Pauline Kael, film criticism
Mackinlay Kantor, If the South Had Won the Civil War
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Seymour Krim, Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
L. C. Knights, "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?"
Ring Lardner, Jr., The Ecstasy of Owen Muir
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip, Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties, Time Frames: The Meaning of Family Pictures, The Forbidden Zone
Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
David Lodge, Souls and Bodies [How Far Can You Go?]
Jack London, The Iron Heel
Dwight Macdonald, essays, film reviews
Ross MacDonald, mysteries
Hugh MacLennan, The Watch That Ends the Night
Louis MacNeice, poetry
David Madden, editor, Rediscoveries
Norman Mailer, Barbary Shore, Advertisements for Myself, The
Deer Park
William March, Company K
Karl Marx
William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
Bruce McCall, Zany Afternoons
Mary McCarthy
James M. McPherson, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn With the Sword
Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener"
H. L. Mencken
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn
Walter M. Miller, Jr., Canticle for Leibowitz
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee
Wright Morris, The Inhabitants
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Laughter in the Dark, Pale Fire, lectures
on literature
Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav, tales
Joyce Carol Oates, American Appetites
John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, short stories
George Orwell, anything
R. R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled
Dorothy Parker
Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage, Shakespeare's Bawdy
Kenneth Patchen, poetry, The Journal of Albion Moonlight,
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, Sleepers Awake
I. L. Peretz, short stories
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
Richard Price, The Wanderers, Ladies' Man
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy
Rabelais
Keith Roberts, Pavane
Rudy Rucker, Master of Space and Time
Isaac Bashevis Singer, short stories, Enemies: A Love Story,
Satan in Goray
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöo, the Martin Beck mystery novels
Robin Skelton, editor, Poetry of the Thirties
Jane Smiley
Terry Southern, The Magic Christian, Candy
Scott Spencer, Endless Love
George R. Stewart, Earth Abides, Names on the Land
James Tate, poetry
Virgil Thomson, music criticism
Jim Thompson
Marian Thurm, short stories
William Trevor, anything -- especially the short stories
Leon Trotsky
Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, "The Mysterious Stranger,"
"The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg"
Thorstein Veblen
Gore Vidal, any essays
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Sirens of Titan, Mother Night
Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade, Trotsky in Exile
Lynn White, Jr., Medieval Technology and Social Change
Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
Thornton Wilder, Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, short plays
Nancy Willard, A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
William Carlos Williams, Paterson, any poetry
Edmund Wilson, simply anything
Robert Charles Wilson, Darwinia, The Perseids
Bernard Wolfe, Limbo
Tobias Wolff, anything
Hilma Wolitzer, In The Palomar Arms, Silver
Cornell Woolrich, mysteries
Richard Wright, Native Son, Black Boy, "The Man Who
Lived Underground"
Richard Yates, anything -- especially Revolutionary Road
and The Easter Parade
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