aListofBooks

Ultimate Best Books

List: The 20th Centrury's Greatest Hits by American Book Review

Omensetter's Luck

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

3.0 (1)

#606
RANK
286
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Red Harvest

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett

5.0 (3)

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte.

#461
RANK
787
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Shadow of the Torturer

Shadow of the Torturer

Gene Wolfe

4.0 (4)

It is possible I already had some presentiment of my future.To those who have preceded me in the study of the posthistoric world, and particularly to those collectors - too numerous to name here - who have permitted me to examine artifacts surviving so many centuries of futurity, and most especially to those who have allowed me to visit and photograph the era's few extant buildings, I am truly grateful. G.W. (Appendix)

#485
RANK
674
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Native Son

Native Son

Richard Wright

3.86 (7)

Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.

#141
RANK
5,225
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Libra

Libra

Don DeLillo

4.5 (2)

#512
RANK
566
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

3.25 (4)

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

#256
RANK
2,364
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Women in Love

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

2.8 (5)

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was drawing upon a board which she held on her knee. They were mostly silent, talking as their thoughts strayed through their minds.

#184
RANK
4,129
POINTS
0 votes on this list
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

Samuel Beckett

4.0 (3)

I am in my mother's room.

#328
RANK
1,710
POINTS
0 votes on this list
#619
RANK
249
POINTS
0 votes on this list
The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

Robert Coover

3.0 (1)

Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with relief and tension all at once, unable to sit, unable to think, <i>in</i> there, <i>with</i> them! Oh yes, boys, it was on! He was sure of it! More than just another ball game now: <i>history!</i>

#594
RANK
311
POINTS
0 votes on this list