Just how underread are you???
Evidently, these are the "best works of American fiction of the last 25 years". (via Antoine)
And evidently I'm not as well read as I thought (particular shame in NOT having read American Pastoral yet).
The meme goes like this... copy the list and bold the titles you've read, to reveal your own humiliation. (and yeah, I did read ALL the Updike, and let me be the one to say they DON'T all belong on there. Rabbit Run rocks, but some of them are just porny and lame)
Then, when you've finished shaming yourself, help me make a list of the "best American poetry of the last 25 years"!
Beloved–Toni Morrison
Underworld–Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian–Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels–John Updike– Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest
American Pastoral–Philip Roth
A Confederacy of Dunces–John Kennedy Toole
Housekeeping–Marilynne Robinson
Winter’s Tale–Mark Helprin
White Noise–Don DeLillo
The Counterlife–Philip Roth
Libra–Don DeLillo
Where I’m Calling From–Raymond Carver
The Things They Carried–Tim O’Brien
Mating–Norman Rush
Jesus’ Son–Denis Johnson
Operation Shylock–Philip Roth
Independence Day–Richard Ford
Sabbath’s Theater–Philip Roth
Border Trilogy–Cormac McCarthy—
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
The Human Stain–Philip Roth
The Known World–Edward P. Jones
The Plot Against America–Philip Roth
And evidently I'm not as well read as I thought (particular shame in NOT having read American Pastoral yet).
The meme goes like this... copy the list and bold the titles you've read, to reveal your own humiliation. (and yeah, I did read ALL the Updike, and let me be the one to say they DON'T all belong on there. Rabbit Run rocks, but some of them are just porny and lame)
Then, when you've finished shaming yourself, help me make a list of the "best American poetry of the last 25 years"!
Beloved–Toni Morrison
Underworld–Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian–Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels–John Updike– Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest
American Pastoral–Philip Roth
A Confederacy of Dunces–John Kennedy Toole
Housekeeping–Marilynne Robinson
Winter’s Tale–Mark Helprin
White Noise–Don DeLillo
The Counterlife–Philip Roth
Libra–Don DeLillo
Where I’m Calling From–Raymond Carver
The Things They Carried–Tim O’Brien
Mating–Norman Rush
Jesus’ Son–Denis Johnson
Operation Shylock–Philip Roth
Independence Day–Richard Ford
Sabbath’s Theater–Philip Roth
Border Trilogy–Cormac McCarthy—
All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
The Human Stain–Philip Roth
The Known World–Edward P. Jones
The Plot Against America–Philip Roth
6 Comments:
I recommend Mating, The Human Stain, and at least the first half of Winter's Tale.
Nice to see so many men on this list.
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I'm just happy someone reads my blog.
Gosh. I thought for sure you would have something to say about the jewish marriage debate that i wrote about. Seemed up your alley. But I guess you are busy pushing other more important projects, most important being mommyhood and new baby growing.
Laurel
the other laurel
Oh, I tried! You didn't link to the story and I couldn't find it... can you give me the link??
I'm not so into this list. I had it beside my bed for along time, trying to get inspired. I read the Border Trilogy then gave up. Hard to believe that Toni Morrison was the only woman and the only person of color. Scary that.
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