Restricting to just novels -- "Ulysses" by James Joyce "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce "Moby Dick" (1849) by Herman Melville "The Sound and the Fury" (1929) by William Faulkner "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Crime and Punishment: by Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Atonement" (2002) by Ian McEwan "Catch-22" (1961) by Joseph Heller "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1969) by John Fowles "Herzog" (1964) by Saul Bellow
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <rob...@cirrillian.com>wrote: > Ok, so I've decided my literary education is somewhat lacking and would > like to know this group's recommendations for the "10 Best Literary Works" I > should read. They have to be works of fiction and available in English and > not just say of 2009 but of all time. Google searches tend to list the best > of a year or be listed by one particular publisher. This is a good group > to poll since you all (most) have at least some kind of scientific/technical > bent. So I know the suggestions will be good ones for me! > > Once I have a list of all suggestions maybe I'll ask you all to vote on > them. > > My list currently starts with Frank's recommendation today: > > "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy > > Thanks! > Robert C. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- George Duncan georgeduncanart.com (505) 983-6895 Represented by ViVO Contemporary Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward. Soren Kierkegaard
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