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So, I'm thinking about applying to the BookYouCrew group here on livejournal, and I'm wondering what they would think of my top 20 list. They don't like trite, and they don't want you to play it incredibly safe. So...
Here's a list of works I would include. Tell me what you think.
Maus I and II, Art Spiegelman
Trash, Dorothy Allison
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Christ in Concrete, Pietro di Donato
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Tom Robbins
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Selected Poems collection, William Carlos Williams
Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown <--guilty pleasure
Comments?
Here's a list of works I would include. Tell me what you think.
Maus I and II, Art Spiegelman
Trash, Dorothy Allison
Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Orlando, Virginia Woolf
You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down, Alice Walker
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Christ in Concrete, Pietro di Donato
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Tom Robbins
Angels in America, Tony Kushner
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Selected Poems collection, William Carlos Williams
Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown <--guilty pleasure
Comments?