"Books to Read Immediately"
According to Francine Prose, we should run out and read:
* Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. M. Kuwata and Tashaki Kojima (translators), Rashomon and Other Stories
* Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women
* Anonymous, Dorothy L. Sayers (translator), The Song of Roland
* Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
* Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility
* Babel, Isaac. Walter Morrison (translator), The Collected Stories
* Baldwin, James. Vintage Baldwin
* Balzac, Honore de. Kathleen Raine (translator), Cousin Bette
* Barthleme, Donald, Sixty Stories
* Brodkey, Harold, Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
* Baxter, Charles, Believers: A Novella and Stories
* Beckett, Samuel. The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
* Bowen, Elizabeth, The House in Paris
* Bowles, Jane. Two Serious Ladies
* Bowles, Paul, Paul Bowles: Collected Stories and Later Writings
* Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights
* Calvino, Italo, Cosmicomics
* Carver, Raymond, Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
* Carver, Raymond, Cathedral
* Cervantes, Miguel De. Tobias Smollet (translator), Don Quixote
* Chandler, Raymond, The Big Sleep
* Cheever, John, The Stories of John Cheever
* Chekhov, Anton. Constance Garnett (translator), A Life in Letters
* Chekhov, Anton. Constance Garnett (transltor), Tales of Anton Chekov: Volumes 1-13
* Diaz, Junot, Drown
* Dickens, Charles, Bleak House
* Dickens, Charles, Dombey and Son
* Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Constance Garnett (translator), Crime and Punishment
* Dybek, Stuart, I Sailed With Magellan
* Eisenberg, Deborah, The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg
* Eliot, George, Middlemarch
* Elkin, Stanley, Searches and Seizures
* Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
* Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender Is the Night
* Flaubert, Gustave. Geoffrey Wall (translator), Madamen Bovary
* Flaubert, Gustave. Robert Baldick (trranslator), A Sentimental Education
* Fox, Paula, Jonathan Frazen (introduction), Desperate Characters
* Franzen, Jonathan, The Corrections
* Gallant, Mavis, Paris Stories
* Gaddis, William, The Recognitions
* Gates, David, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories
* Gogol, Nikolai. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators), Dead Souls: A Novel
* Green, Henry, Doting
* Green, Henry, Loving
* Hartley, L. P., The Go-Between
* Hemingway, Ernest, A Moveable Feast
* Hemingway, Ernest, The Sun Also Rises
* Herbert, Zbigniew. Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott (translators), Selected Poems
* James, Henry, The Portrait of a Lady
* James, Henry, The Turn of the Screw
* Jarrell, Randall, Pictures from an Institution
* Johnson, Denis, Angles
* Johnson, Denis, Jesus' Son
* Johnson, Diane, Le Divorce
* Johnson, Diane, Persian Nights
* Johnson, Samuel, The Life of Savage
* Joyce, James, Dubliners
* Kafka, Franz. Malcolm Pasley (translator), The Judgment and In the Penal Colony and Metamorphosis and Other Stories
* Kafka, Franz. Willa and Edmund Muir (translators), The Trial
* Le Carre, John, A Perfect Spy
* Mandelstam, Nadezdha, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
* Mansfield, Katherine, Collected Stories of Kathrine Mansfield
* Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Gregory Rabassa (translator), One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Gregory Rabassa (translator), The Autumn of the Patriarch
* McInerney, Jay, Brignt Lights, Big City
* Melville, Herman, Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cereno
* Melville, Herman, Moby Dick
* Milton, John, Paradise Lost
* Munro, Alice, Selected Stories
* Nabokov, Vladimir, Lectures on Russian Literature
* Nobokov, Vladimir, Lolita
* O'Brien, Tim, The Things They Carried
* O'Connor, Flannery, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
* O"Connor, Flannery, Collected Stories
* O'Connor, Flannery, Wise Blood
* Packer, ZZ, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
* Paustovsky, Konstantin. Joseph Barnes (translator), Years of Hope: The Story of a Life
* Price, Richard, Freedom
* Proust, Marcel. Lydia Davis (translator), Swann's Way
* Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's Rainbow
* Richardson, Samuel, Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded
* Roth, Philip, American Pastoral
* Roth, Philip, Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1962
* Rulfo, Juan. Margaret Sayers Peden (translator), Pedro Paramo
* Salinger, J. D., Franny and Zooey
* Shakespeare, William, King Lear
* Shteyngart, Gary, The Russian Debutante's Handbook
* Sophocles. Sir George Young (translator), Oedipus Rex
* Spencer, Scott, A Ship Made of Paper
* St. Aubyn, Edward, Mother's Milk
* St. Aubyn, Edward, Some Hope: A Trilogy
* Stead, Christina, The Man Who Loved Children
* Steegmuller, Francis, Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
* Stein, Gertrude, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
* Stendhal. Roger Gard (translator), The Red and the Black
* Stout, Rex, Plot It Yourself
* Strunk, Willliam and E. B. White. Maira Kalman (illustrator), The Elements of Style, Illustrated
* Tayor, Peter, A Summons to Memphis
* Tolstaya, Tatyana, Sleepwalker in a Fog
* Tolstoy, Leo. Constance Garnet (translator), Anna Karenina
* Tolstoy, Leo. Aylmer Maude (translator), The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
* Tolstoy, Leo. David McDuff (translator), The Kreutzer Sonato and Other Stories
* Tolstoy, Leo. Rosemary Edomnds (translator), Resurrection
* Tolstoy, Leo. Constance Garnett (translator), War and Peace
* Trevor, William, The Children of Dynmouth
* Trevor, William, The Collected Stories
* Trevor, William, Fools of Fortune
* Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. Isaiah Berlin (translator), First Love
* Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
* Von Kleist, Heinrich. Martin Greenberg (translator) and Thomas Mann (preface), The Marquise of O--and Other Stories
* West, Rebecca, The Birds Fall Down
* West, Rebecca, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
* Williams, Joy, Escapes
* Woods, James, Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
* Woolf, Virginia, On Being Ill
* Yates, Richard, Revolutionary Road
Whew!
4:01:01 PM 
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