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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Nominations open: Need one more title for the Elliot's Reading Top 100 Books list

Thanks all for the many responses to yesterday's post, the Elliot's Reading Top 100 Books. I added a note to yesterday's post regarding the selections: fried Ted G. noted that On the Road appears twice! My bad. But that opens a spot on the list for one more book, and nominations are open (I have one in mind but could be swayed if I've missed something). Among suggestions that have come in so far: something by Ida Fink. I don't know; I've never read her work - and maybe I will. But the list comprises only books I've read (so that I can score "100"). A.A. Milne? Maybe, though children's books opens up a whole different realm. Slaughterhouse Five? Vonnegut has never been a personal fave - may be my own short-coming. Same for DeLillo, though I've enjoyed a # of his books. Most likely nomination to date: Tristram Shandy. I did very much enjoy reading this novel a long time ago, and it was certainly ahead of its time and a forerunner of postmodernism, but my memory of the novel is so vague except for the extended gag about his race against time (and the included blank pages) that I'm a little reluctant to put it forward as my recommendation. (Although others on the list are from the distant past of my reading as well, hm.) Why no Shakespeare?, someone asked. And why not the Bible? This is a list of literary fiction only - no drama, poems, or "great books." Feel free to offer more suggestions by leaving a comment or on my Facebook page. Will update later in the week, and will also add the names of the authors, once everyone's had a chance to try identify all 100 (or 99, as the case may be). And, no, it's not Cathedral, by David Macaulay, much as I love his work, too.

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