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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