Last modified: 4/30/98.

It still needs a lot of work.

Current Favorite Fiction

First Tier

These are my very favorite works. My favorite author since around Christmas 1986 has been Robbe-Grillet. Before that my favorite was Pinter.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
La Maison de Rendez-Vous
Project for a Revolution in New York
Topology of a Phantom City
Recollections of the Golden Triangle
Angélique ou l'enchantement (maybe)
Harold Pinter
Memory Plays:
Night
Old Times
No Man's Land
The Collection
Betrayal
Family Voices
Kawabata Yasunari
Thousand Cranes
Marie Redonnet
Forever Valley

Second Tier

Takahashi Rumiko
Urusei Yatsura
Ranma 1/2
Marie Redonnet
Silsie
Hôtel Spendid
Rose Mellie Rose
Candy Story
Nevermore
Mobie-Diq
Seaside
Le Cirque Pandor
Jean Racine
Andromache (Richard Wilbur translation)
Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Voyeur
Jealousy
Djinn
Ghosts in the Mirror
Un régicide (probably)
Les derniers jours de Corinthe (probably)
Joe Orton
Loot
What the Butler Saw
Murakami Haruki
Norwegian Wood
Jorges Luis Borges
Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote

Third Tier

Samuel Beckett
Molloy
Play
Rockabye
Endgame
Happy Days
Waiting for Godot
others
Pierre Capretz, et. al.
French In Action
Harold Pinter
various plays
Kathy Acker
Kathy Goes to Haiti
Marguerite Duras
The Malady of Death
Natsume Souseki
Sanshiro
And Then
Tanizaki Jun'ichirou
The Key
The Reed Cutter
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The Real Inspector Hound
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita
Salmon Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
James Joyce
Ulysses
Finnegans Wake
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past
Franz Kafka
various short stories
Sam Shepard
Buried Child
other plays
John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The Magus
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Old Favorites

This section needs a lot of work.
Hardy Boys
Great Brain series
John Bellair's ...
SF short stories (Tiptree, etc)
Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye
Camus
Lord of the Flies


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