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Harleth's "My Professor's rec. List"

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This is a list of boooks my creative writing professor recommeded that aspiring writers read. If any other Professor give out a list I’ll update.

  1. 1.
  2. 2.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  4. 4.
    Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo
  5. 5.
    The Names
    by Don Delillo
  6. 6.
    The Broom of the System: A Novel
    by David Foster Wallace
  7. 7.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace
  8. 8.
    AVA
    by Carole Maso
  9. 9.
    Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert)
    by Robert Coover
  11. 11.
    Jesus' Son
    by Denis Johnson
  12. 12.
    Great Apes (Will Self)
    by Will Self
  13. 13.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole
  14. 14.
    The Verificationist: A Novel
    by Donald Antrim
  15. 15.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders
  16. 16.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick
  17. 17.
    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING
  18. 18.
    Whores for Gloria: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by William Vollmann
  19. 19.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  21. 21.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  22. 22.
    Juneteenth: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  23. 23.
    The Fall
    by Albert Camus
  24. 24.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  25. 25.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  26. 26.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka
  27. 27.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka
  28. 28.
    Ulysses: A Reproduction of the 1922 First Edition
    by James Joyce
  29. 29.
  30. 30.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce
  31. 31.
    ?
    Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

  32. 32.
    The Dead (Art of the Novella series, The)
    by James Joyce
  33. 33.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  34. 34.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  35. 35.
    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner
  36. 36.
    ?
    In Search of Lost Time (Folio Society)
    by proust
  37. 37.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  38. 38.
    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway
  39. 39.
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  40. 40.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  41. 41.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  42. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia
    by George Orwell
  43. 43.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  44. 44.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  45. 45.
    Adventures of Huck Finn
    by Mark Twain
  46. 46.
    Murphy (Beckett, Samuel)
    by Samuel Beckett
  47. 47.
    Molloy
    by Samuel Beckett
  48. 48.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  49. 49.
    In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck
  50. 50.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  51. 51.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J. D. Salinger
  52. 52.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  53. 53.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad
  54. 54.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  55. 55.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  56. 56.
    The Double (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  57. 57.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.M. Dostoevsky
  58. 58.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  59. 59.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  60. 60.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen
  61. 61.
    Bartleby, the Scrivener (Dodo Press)
    by Herman Melville
  62. 62.
    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  63. 63.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  64. 64.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  65. 65.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens
  66. 66.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire
  67. 67.
  68. 68.
    Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
    by Hermann Hesse
  69. 69.
    White Album Pb
    by Joan Didion
  70. 70.
    Autobiography of A Face
    by Lucy Grealy
  71. 71.
    Motherless Brooklyn
    by Jonathan Lethem
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Created by Harleth on Apr 08, 2007.
 

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