Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education

1.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,070,018 ratings
2.
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings 4.44 avg rating β€” 33,252 ratings
3.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating β€” 93,531 ratings
4.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man 3.92 avg rating β€” 198,732 ratings
5.
The Third Policeman
The Third Policeman 3.97 avg rating β€” 22,248 ratings
6.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 753,924 ratings
7.
Hunger
Hunger 4.04 avg rating β€” 62,406 ratings
8.
Under the Volcano
Under the Volcano 3.76 avg rating β€” 26,361 ratings
9.
The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer 3.64 avg rating β€” 30,278 ratings
10.
V.
V. 3.97 avg rating β€” 24,778 ratings
11.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night 4.19 avg rating β€” 46,253 ratings
12.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating β€” 40,389 ratings
13.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating β€” 123,939 ratings
14.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.14 avg rating β€” 9,996 ratings
15.
At Swim-Two-Birds
At Swim-Two-Birds 3.85 avg rating β€” 14,061 ratings
16.
Omensetter's Luck
Omensetter's Luck really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2,492 ratings
17.
Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse 3.68 avg rating β€” 6,618 ratings
18.
Herzog
Herzog 3.76 avg rating β€” 22,522 ratings
19.
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,095 ratings
20.
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€” 2,814 ratings
21.
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1) 3.59 avg rating β€” 62,564 ratings
22.
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo 3.85 avg rating β€” 4,795 ratings
23.
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried 4.14 avg rating β€” 337,471 ratings
24.
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Hero With a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating β€” 44,163 ratings
25.
Nadja
Nadja 3.54 avg rating β€” 12,674 ratings
26.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 3.95 avg rating β€” 53,061 ratings
27.
Correction
Correction 4.26 avg rating β€” 3,568 ratings
28.
Mythologies
Mythologies 4.08 avg rating β€” 16,795 ratings
29.
The Assistant
The Assistant 3.90 avg rating β€” 11,025 ratings
30.
The Lime Twig
The Lime Twig 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,310 ratings
31.
The Adventures of Augie March
The Adventures of Augie March 3.84 avg rating β€” 18,692 ratings
32.
The Death of Artemio Cruz
The Death of Artemio Cruz 3.86 avg rating β€” 11,455 ratings
33.
The Changeling
The Changeling 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,788 ratings
34.
The World Within the Word
The World Within the Word 4.08 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
35.
The Lime Works
The Lime Works 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,794 ratings
36.
State of Grace
State of Grace 4.12 avg rating β€” 708 ratings
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Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato 3.91 avg rating β€” 14,427 ratings
38.
Taking Care
Taking Care 4.28 avg rating β€” 908 ratings
39.
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
The Palm-Wine Drinkard 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,577 ratings
40.
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 4.35 avg rating β€” 1,773 ratings
41.
The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 5,749 ratings
42.
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales 3.87 avg rating β€” 3,695 ratings
43.
The Little Disturbances of Man
The Little Disturbances of Man 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,120 ratings
44.
Man in the Holocene
Man in the Holocene 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,283 ratings
45.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams 3.75 avg rating β€” 6,543 ratings
46.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 3,361 ratings
47.
The Box Man
The Box Man 3.59 avg rating β€” 7,276 ratings
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Chimera
Chimera 3.71 avg rating β€” 2,243 ratings
49.
Black Tickets: Stories
Black Tickets: Stories 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,216 ratings
50.
Henderson the Rain King
Henderson the Rain King 3.76 avg rating β€” 15,911 ratings
51.
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,622 ratings
52.
Searching for Caleb
Searching for Caleb 3.88 avg rating β€” 6,559 ratings
53.
Manifestoes of Surrealism
Manifestoes of Surrealism 3.83 avg rating β€” 3,243 ratings
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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
55.
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
Gogol's Wife and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating β€” 373 ratings
56.
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories 4.13 avg rating β€” 2,405 ratings
57.
Words in Commotion and Other Stories
Words in Commotion and Other Stories 3.72 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
57.
Fiction and the Figures of Life
Fiction and the Figures of Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 313 ratings
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Homo Faber
Homo Faber 3.68 avg rating β€” 30,235 ratings
60.
I, etcetera
I, etcetera 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,038 ratings
60.
Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself 3.56 avg rating β€” 623 ratings
62.
Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,554 ratings
63.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating β€” 15,587 ratings
64.
The Pure and the Impure
The Pure and the Impure
by: Colette
3.59 avg rating β€” 2,286 ratings
65.
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? 4.19 avg rating β€” 19,017 ratings
66.
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
67.
Humboldt's Gift
Humboldt's Gift 3.84 avg rating β€” 9,916 ratings
68.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.20 avg rating β€” 8,257 ratings
69.
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology
Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology 3.72 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
70.
Rivers and Mountains
Rivers and Mountains 4.21 avg rating β€” 320 ratings
71.
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara 4.34 avg rating β€” 5,635 ratings
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The Writer on Her Work
The Writer on Her Work 3.95 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
73.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 3.98 avg rating β€” 3,486 ratings
74.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,781 ratings
75.
Breaking and Entering
Breaking and Entering 4.09 avg rating β€” 967 ratings
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Nog
Nog 3.61 avg rating β€” 621 ratings
77.
The Magic Barrel
The Magic Barrel 3.93 avg rating β€” 2,784 ratings
78.
I'm Not Stiller
I'm Not Stiller 4.03 avg rating β€” 5,556 ratings
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Falling in Place
Falling in Place 3.57 avg rating β€” 517 ratings
80.
The Blood Oranges
The Blood Oranges 3.65 avg rating β€” 797 ratings
81.
Kaspar and Other Plays
Kaspar and Other Plays 3.79 avg rating β€” 303 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor 4.21 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
83.
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis 3.63 avg rating β€” 6,770 ratings
84.
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could 4.11 avg rating β€” 235 ratings
85.
The Oranging of America and Other Stories
The Oranging of America and Other Stories
by: Max Apple
3.57 avg rating β€” 216 ratings
86.
The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Rhetoric of Fiction 4.01 avg rating β€” 1,258 ratings
87.
The Coup
The Coup 3.37 avg rating β€” 1,011 ratings
88.
The Paris Review Interviews, 1
The Paris Review Interviews, 1 4.37 avg rating β€” 1,195 ratings
89.
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
90.
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
91.
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
92.
The Writings of Robert Motherwell
The Writings of Robert Motherwell 4.51 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
93.
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers 3.94 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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Selected Letters
Selected Letters 4.38 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations
Sexual Perversity in Chicago / The Duck Variations 3.61 avg rating β€” 2,312 ratings
96.
Thank You and Other poems
Thank You and Other poems 4.13 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
97.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 3.99 avg rating β€” 896 ratings
98.
Tragic Magic: A Novel
Tragic Magic: A Novel 3.88 avg rating β€” 139 ratings