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This is your syllabus. Predictable? Sure. Essential? You bet. Worry about resisting the canon in a few decades. For the time being, learn a little bit from these literary lions.

  1. 2.
    Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole

  2. 3.
    Libra
    by Don DeLillo

  3. 4.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

  4. 5.
    Tree of Smoke: A Novel
    by Denis Johnson

  5. 6.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  6. 7.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

  7. 8.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  8. 9.
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    by Junot Diaz

  9. 10.
    Clockers: A Novel
    by Richard Price

  10. 11.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  11. 12.
    The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Michael Chabon

  12. 13.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  13. 14.
    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
    by Tom Wolfe

  14. 15.
    Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel
    by Norman Mailer

  15. 16.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  16. 17.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  17. 18.
    Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  18. 19.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  19. 20.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  20. 21.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

  21. 22.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  22. 23.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  23. 24.
    Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
    by David Foster Wallace

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Created by danielarkin1 on May 22, 2009.
 

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