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1. John Crowley

Favorite Books

Little, Big (10/10)

Engine Summer (10/10)

The Solitudes (Aegypt, Book 1) (10/10)

Love & Sleep (Aegypt, Book 2) (10/10)

Daemonomania (Aegypt, Book 3) (10/10)

Endless Things (Aegypt, Book 4) (10/10)

The Translator (10/10)

Four Freedoms (10/10)

Novelties and Souvenirs (9/10)

Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land (8/10)

Beasts (7/10)

The Deep (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.2

2. Vladimir Nabokov

Ada, or Ardor (10/10)

Lolita (10/10)

Speak, Memory (10/10)

Pale Fire (10/10)

Invitation to a Beheading (9/10)

Laughter in the Dark (9/10)

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (9/10)

Look at the Harlequins (9/10)

Bend Sinister (9/10)

The Luzhin Defence (8/10)

The Enchanter (8/10)

Transparent Things (8/10)

Strong Opinions (8/10)

Pnin (8/10)

The Eye (8/10)

Despair (8/10)

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (7/10)

Glory (7/10)

The Original of Laura (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.3

3. Wallace Stevens

The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (10/10)

Opus Posthumous (10/10)

The Palm at the End of the Mind (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

10

4. W.S. Merwin

The River Sound (10/10)

The Second Four Books of Poems (10/10)

Present Company (10/10)

Flower and Hand (9/10)

Rain in the Trees (9/10)

The First Four Books of Poems (9/10)

mika_'s rating:

9

5. Edgar Allan Poe

The Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.3

6. John Barth

Where Three Roads Meet (10/10)

The Floating Opera and the End of the Road (10/10)

Lost in the Funhouse (10/10)

Chimera (9/10)

The Development (6/10)

Coming Soon!!!: A Narrative (4/10)

The Sot-Weed Factor (currently reading)

Giles Goat Boy (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9.1

7. Arthur Rimbaud

Rimbaud Complete (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

10

8. Edward Abbey

The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (10/10)

Desert Solitaire (10/10)

Black Sun (9/10)

Confessions of a Barbarian (8/10)

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (8/10)

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (8/10)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (7/10)

Fire on the Mountain (7/10)

Down the River (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.4

9. Mark Twain

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain (10/10)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (10/10)

Life on the Mississippi (9/10)

Roughing It (9/10)

A Dog's Tale (9/10)

Letters from the Earth (8/10)

A Tramp Abroad (8/10)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (8/10)

Short Stories and Tall Tales (8/10)

A Horse's Tale (7/10)

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (6/10)

The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches (6/10)

The Prince and the Pauper (5/10)

mika_'s rating:

9.2

10. Marcel Proust

Swann's Way (10/10)

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9.3

11. Witold Gombrowicz

Ferdydurke (10/10)

Cosmos (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

8

12. Herman Melville

Moby Dick (10/10)

The Ambiguities (9/10)

The Confidence Man (9/10)

Benito Cereno (8/10)

Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales (7/10)

The Encantadas and Other Stories (7/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.7

13. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essays and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

10

14. Joseph Campbell

The Hero with a Thousand Faces (10/10)

The Power of Myth (10/10)

The Mythic Dimension (8/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.9

15. William Shakespeare

As You Like It (10/10)

Loves Labor's Lost (10/10)

Hamlet (10/10)

Romeo and Juliet (10/10)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (10/10)

Othello (10/10)

Timon of Athens (9/10)

The Tempest (8/10)

Macbeth (8/10)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (8/10)

Antony and Cleopatra (8/10)

Comedy of Errors (8/10)

Twelfth Night (8/10)

Pericles (7/10)

The Taming of the Shrew (7/10)

The Two Gentlemen of Verona (7/10)

The Winter's Tale (7/10)

The Merchant of Venice (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.8

16. Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (10/10)

Les Miserables (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9

17. Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.9

18. Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian (10/10)

Suttree (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.6

19. Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow (10/10)

The Crying Lot of 49 (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.2

20. Gene Wolfe

Shadow of the Torturer (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 1) (10/10)

Claw of the Conciliator (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 2) (10/10)

Sword of the Lictor (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 3) (10/10)

Citadel of the Autarch (Book of the New Sun, Vol. 4) (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.5

21. William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury (10/10)

Absalom, Absalom! (10/10)

Sanctuary (9/10)

As I Lay Dying (8/10)

Intruder in the Dust (6/10)

Light in August (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

10

22. William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience (10/10)

A Pluralistic Universe (9/10)

Pragmatism (9/10)

Essays in Radical Empiricism (8/10)

The Meaning of Truth (7/10)

The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.8

23. Franz Kafka

The Trial (10/10)

The Metamorphosis (10/10)

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories (9/10)

Amerika: The Missing Person (8/10)

mika_'s rating:

9.3

24. Sophocles

The Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.7

25. Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse (10/10)

Monday or Tuesday (8/10)

Mrs. Dalloway (7/10)

The Voyage Out (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9

26. Sara Teasdale

Love Songs (10/10)

Helen of Troy and Other Poems (9/10)

Rivers to the Sea (9/10)

Flame and Shadow (8/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.4

27. James Joyce

Ulysses (10/10)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (9/10)

Dubliners (8/10)

Chamber Music (4/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.3

28. Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (10/10)

Best Poems of the Bronte Sisters (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8

29. William Wordsworth

Selected Poems (9/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.6

30. Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray (10/10)

The Importance of Being Earnest (9/10)

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (8/10)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (7/10)

Vera; or, The Nihilists (5/10)

mika_'s rating:

9

31. Benedict Spinoza

Ethics (10/10)

mika_'s rating:

9

32. Francis Ponge

The Nature of Things (10/10)

Selected Poems (9/10)

Vegetation (8/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.9

33. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Faust (10/10)

The Sorrows of Young Werther (9/10)

Maxims and Reflections (7/10)

Elective Affinities (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9.2

34. Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls (10/10)

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories (8/10)

The Overcoat and Other Stories (8/10)

mika_'s rating:

9.1

35. Fernando Pessoa

The Book of Disquiet (10/10)

35 Sonnets (9/10)

mika_'s rating:

6.6

36. James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room (9/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.2

37. Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (10/10)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales (9/10)

Kidnapped (8/10)

Treasure Island (8/10)

The Suicide Club (7/10)

Essays in the Art of Writing (7/10)

A Child's Garden of Verses (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.2

38. H.G. Wells

The First Men in the Moon (10/10)

The Invisible Man (9/10)

The Island of Dr. Moreau (9/10)

The Time Machine (9/10)

The Sleeper Awakes (8/10)

The War of the Worlds (8/10)

A Modern Utopia (6/10)

The Food of the Gods (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

9

39. Susan Howe

The Midnight (10/10)

Pierce-Arrow (9/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.8

40. Henry David Thoreau

Walden (10/10)

Civil Disobedience (10/10)

Walking (8/10)

Wild Apples (5/10)

mika_'s rating:

6.8

41. David Hume

Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion (9/10)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (8/10)

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (7/10)

mika_'s rating:

9.4

42. Bertrand Russell

The Problems of Philosophy (9/10)

The Analysis of Mind (9/10)

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (8/10)

Why I Am Not a Christian (8/10)

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (8/10)

Proposed Roads to Freedom (7/10)

Political Ideals (7/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.5

43. Julian Barnes

Flaubert's Parrot (10/10)

England, England (8/10)

A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters (8/10)

Arthur and George (7/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.2

44. John Steinbeck

Cannery Row (9/10)

Sweet Thursday (9/10)

The Grapes of Wrath (9/10)

Travels with Charley (8/10)

The Log from the Sea of Cortez (8/10)

Of Mice and Men (7/10)

The Pearl (6/10)

The Red Pony (6/10)

The Winter of Our Discontent (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

8.5

45. Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere (10/10)

The Sandman Series (10/10)

The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (8/10)

American Gods (7/10)

Black Orchid (7/10)

Good Omens (co-written with Terry Pratchett) (6/10)

Stardust (6/10)

Smoke and Mirrors (6/10)

Fragile Things (6/10)

Angels and Visitations (6/10)

Death: The High Cost of Living (6/10)

Death: The Time of Your Life (6/10)

Anansi Boys (5/10)

Violent Cases (5/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.8

46. Harlan Ellison

Essential Ellison (9/10)

Strange Wine (8/10)

Angry Candy (7/10)

Slippage (7/10)

Children of the Streets (4/10)

mika_'s rating:

7.3

47. Tad Williams

City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Book 1) (8/10)

The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorry and Thorn, Book 1) (8/10)

River of Blue Fire (Otherland, Book 2) (7/10)

Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Book 2) (5/10)

To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Book 3, Part 1) (currently reading)

mika_'s rating:

8.9

48. Italo Calvino

The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount (10/10)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (10/10)

Invisible Cities (8/10)

Cosmicomics (7/10)

Castle of Crossed Destinies (7/10)

Difficult Loves (7/10)

The Baron in the Trees (6/10)

Marcovaldo (6/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.4

49. Guy de Maupassant

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (9/10)

The Necklace and Other Short Stories (7/10)

mika_'s rating:

8.3

50. Jack Kerouac

The Town and the City (9/10)

Dr. Sax (9/10)

The Dharma Bums (8/10)

Some of the Dharma (8/10)

The Subterraneans (7/10)

On the Road (7/10)

Big Sur (6/10)

Satori in Paris and Pic 6/10)

Mexico City Blues (4/10)

mika_'s rating:

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