27 June 2021

My 50 Favorite Novels Offered Without Comment


1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

2. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

3. Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

4. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

5. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

6. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

7. The U.S.A. Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, Big Money) by John Dos Passos

8. Sophie’s Choice By William Styron

9. Desolation Angels by Jack Kerouac

10. Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald

11. The Goldfinch by Donna Tart

12. Everyman Dies Alone by Hans Fallada

13. Stoner by John Williams

14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

15. Town and City by Jack Kerouac

16. Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe

17. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

19. Crime and Punishment by  Fyodor Dostoevsky

20. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

21. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

22. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

23. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

24. The Beautiful and the Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald

25. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

26. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

27. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth

28. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

29. Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson

30. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

31. Blood Merdian by Cormac McCarthy

32. Shoeless Joe by W.P Kinsella

33. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

34. A Secret History by Donna Tart

35. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

36. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

37. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

38. Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

39. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

40. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

41. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

42. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

43. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

44. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

45. Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks

46. The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, Ghost Road) by Pat Barker

47. Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

48. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson

49. True North by Jim Harrison

50. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

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