Donald Barthelme's Reading List

1.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.14 avg rating β€” 10,000 ratings
2.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 753,979 ratings
3.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating β€” 93,548 ratings
4.
Kaspar and Other Plays
Kaspar and Other Plays 3.80 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
5.
Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating β€” 16,795 ratings
6.
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) 3.59 avg rating β€” 62,570 ratings
7.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating β€” 62,414 ratings
8.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot 3.84 avg rating β€” 217,130 ratings
9.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano 3.76 avg rating β€” 26,363 ratings
10.
The Paris Review Interviews, 1
The Paris Review Interviews, 1 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,195 ratings
11.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating β€” 44,165 ratings
12.
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales 3.87 avg rating β€” 3,696 ratings
12.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating β€” 22,252 ratings
14.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,405 ratings
15.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating β€” 14,062 ratings
16.
I'm Not Stiller
I'm Not Stiller 4.03 avg rating β€” 5,558 ratings
17.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating β€” 33,254 ratings
18.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King 3.76 avg rating β€” 15,910 ratings
19.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating β€” 123,950 ratings
20.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating β€” 53,065 ratings
21.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,070,176 ratings
22.
Selected Letters
Selected Letters 4.38 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
23.
How It Is
How It Is really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,453 ratings
24.
The Pure and the Impure
The Pure and the Impure
by: Colette
3.59 avg rating β€” 2,286 ratings
25.
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor 4.21 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
25.
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable 4.28 avg rating β€” 9,326 ratings
27.
Black Tickets: Stories
Black Tickets: Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,216 ratings
28.
The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer 3.64 avg rating β€” 30,281 ratings
29.
Chimera
Chimera 3.71 avg rating β€” 2,244 ratings
30.
Nadja
Nadja 3.54 avg rating β€” 12,677 ratings
31.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating β€” 8,257 ratings
32.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams 3.75 avg rating β€” 6,544 ratings
32.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating β€” 40,393 ratings
34.
The Box Man
The Box Man 3.59 avg rating β€” 7,278 ratings
35.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating β€” 46,255 ratings
36.
Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself 3.56 avg rating β€” 623 ratings
37.
The World Within the Word
The World Within the Word 4.08 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
38.
Fiction and the Figures of Life
Fiction and the Figures of Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 313 ratings
39.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,816 ratings
39.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz 3.86 avg rating β€” 11,456 ratings
41.
Falling in Place
Falling in Place 3.57 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
42.
For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction (Northwestern University Press Paperbacks)
For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction (Northwestern University Press Paperbacks) 3.95 avg rating β€” 721 ratings
43.
Tragic Magic: A Novel
Tragic Magic: A Novel 3.88 avg rating β€” 139 ratings
44.
Rivers and Mountains
Rivers and Mountains 4.21 avg rating β€” 320 ratings
45.
The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,448 ratings
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Thank You and Other poems
Thank You and Other poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
47.
Searching for Caleb
Searching for Caleb 3.88 avg rating β€” 6,559 ratings
48.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,579 ratings
49.
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato 3.91 avg rating β€” 14,429 ratings
50.
The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers
The New Fiction: Interviews with Innovative American Writers 3.91 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
51.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations 3.61 avg rating β€” 2,312 ratings
52.
The Letters, 1830-1880
The Letters, 1830-1880 4.49 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
53.
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers 3.94 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
54.
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology 4.36 avg rating β€” 210 ratings
55.
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Manifestoes of Surrealism 3.83 avg rating β€” 3,243 ratings
56.
The Writer on Her Work, Vol 2: New Essays in New Territory
The Writer on Her Work, Vol 2: New Essays in New Territory 3.86 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
57.
The Writer on Her Work
The Writer on Her Work 3.95 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
58.
The Pushcart Prize XIII: Best of the Small Presses
The Pushcart Prize XIII: Best of the Small Presses 3.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
59.
The Pushcart Prize XI: Best of the Small Presses
The Pushcart Prize XI: Best of the Small Presses really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
60.
Pushcart Prize III: The Best of the Small Presses
Pushcart Prize III: The Best of the Small Presses really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
61.
Pushcart Prize II
Pushcart Prize II 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
62.
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2.75 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
63.
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology 3.72 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
64.
How We Live: Contemporary Life in Contemporary Fiction: An Anthology
How We Live: Contemporary Life in Contemporary Fiction: An Anthology liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Paris Review Interviews, IV (The Paris Review Interviews, 4)
The Paris Review Interviews, IV (The Paris Review Interviews, 4) 4.29 avg rating β€” 329 ratings
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The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom (The Paris Review Interviews, 3)
The Paris Review Interviews, III: The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom (The Paris Review Interviews, 3) 4.35 avg rating β€” 384 ratings
67.
The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters (The Paris Review Interviews, 2)
The Paris Review Interviews, II: Wisdom from the World's Literary Masters (The Paris Review Interviews, 2) 4.38 avg rating β€” 566 ratings
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The Coup
The Coup 3.37 avg rating β€” 1,012 ratings
69.
Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,554 ratings
70.
I, etcetera
I, etcetera 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,038 ratings
71.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,781 ratings
72.
The Little Disturbances of Man
The Little Disturbances of Man 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,120 ratings
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The Blood Oranges
The Blood Oranges 3.65 avg rating β€” 797 ratings
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The Lime Twig
The Lime Twig 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,310 ratings
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V.
V. 3.97 avg rating β€” 24,778 ratings
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Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating β€” 373 ratings
77.
Man in the Holocene
Man in the Holocene 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,283 ratings
78.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating β€” 198,747 ratings
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The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,784 ratings
80.
The Assistant
The Assistant 3.90 avg rating β€” 11,025 ratings
81.
Nog
Nog 3.61 avg rating β€” 621 ratings
82.
Correction
Correction 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,570 ratings
83.
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,773 ratings
84.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,622 ratings
85.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,588 ratings
86.
Fin de partie
Fin de partie 3.79 avg rating β€” 23,764 ratings
87.
The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,750 ratings
88.
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Works, Centenary Editions 3)
The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett (Works, Centenary Editions 3) 4.35 avg rating β€” 2,321 ratings
89.
Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses
Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses 4.10 avg rating β€” 61 ratings