Your Top Ten Books
What are some of the top ten books you'd put on a list? This is is my list today. It would be different tomorrow.
General
1. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
2. The Stories of Alice Munro
3. A Fan's Notes, Frederick Exley
4. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth
6. The Good Soldier, Ford Maddox Ford
7. A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Connor
8. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver
9. Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O'Nan
10. True Grit, Charles Portis
Crime
Top Ten List of Crime Fiction
1. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain
3. The Friends of Eddie Coyle, George V. Higgins
4. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith
5. Beast in View, Margaret Millar
6. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes, Lawrence Block
7. New Hope for the Dead, Charles Willeford
8. Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell
9. The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
10. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
0 comments:
Post a Comment