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I'm always in search of new books to read, & not having a lot of luck lately. I ran across this list, & decided to challenge myself to read one book from each author, counting down from 100. Starting with William Blake , any recommendations?
I'm always in search of new books to read, & not having a lot of luck lately. I ran across this list, & decided to challenge myself to read one book from each author, counting down from 100. Starting with William Blake , any recommendations?
Reading from lists always gives me great satisfaction. The feeling I get when I cross something odd the list is exhilarating. As for Blake, I have no real recommendations. If it were me, I'd read one of his smaller collections of poetry so that I could move on to one of the more meaty novelists.
Enjoy!
Out of curiosity, how many of the authors have you already read?
The list is a joke. Dan Brown?! Really? Who would put that hack ahead of Beckett, Morrison, Blake, Flaubert and countless great writers excluded from the list? It seems someone randomly picked names from Amazon lists of bestselling popular and classic books.
Blake was a poetic genius, any of his collections are worth reading.
The list gives too much homage to the old writers and does not properly recognize some of the outrageously-talented post WWII writers like James Lee Burke, Jonathan Lethem, Mark Helprin and Ken Kesey.
I scanned the list and saw only three or four non-Europeans and non-U.S. Americans on the list. So, I think the list should be re-titled to reflect its limited scope.
Or maybe they should cut some of the obvious second-rate (however entertaining) and widen the scope the include all the entire world. A few first rate authors from other parts of the world:
Yasunari Kawabata
Junichiro Tanizaki
Patrick White
Chinua Achebe
Jorge Amado
Clarice Lispector
Lya Luft
Rubem Fonseca
Calvert Casey
Reinaldo Arenas
Luis Bernardo Honwana
Manuel Rui
Nelida Pinon
Naguib Mahfouz
Constantine Cavafy
Mario Vargas Llosa
Arundhati Roy
Rohitan Mistry
Murasaki Shikibu..............and so many more.
- Walt Whitman
- Marcel Proust
- E. M. Forster
- Andre Gide
- Radcliffe Hall
- Oscar Wilde
- Virginia Wolf
- Tennessee Williams
- J. R. Ackerley
- Gertrude Stein
- James Baldwin
- W. H. Auden
- Truman Capote
- Djuna Barnes
- Allen Ginsberg
- Gore Vidal
- William S. Burroughs
- Edmund White
- Christopher Isherwood
- Paul Monette
- Constantin Cavafy
- Langston Hughes
- Yukio Mishima
- Randy Shilts
- Mary Renault
- Vita Sackville-West
- John Rechy
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Andrew Holleran
- Lytton Strachey
- Anais Nin
I've read most if not all of the authors on the Top 100 list by now. Plus many many more that should be on there instead of some others like Dan Brown. Did Dan Brown create that top 100 list?
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