Top 50 Books
Even having this list include 50 books is probably not enough, if I list an entire 50 there'll probably be more that pop into my head that seem like they belong here. [In fact, I have just listed 50 books & the list is woefully incomplete - it's tempting to make it my "Top 100". Critics will note that very few women authors are represented, this is not intended as a critique of women authors, I simply listed the 1st 50 books that came to mind as having been important to me & haven't tried to fudge that to meet any particular quota.] I've listed some of my own books too because, hey!, I think they belong here.
They're listed in alphabetical order rather than according to a rating because there's no way I believe in a hierarchy that can absolutely put one above the other. They all have something extraordinary to offer. When the titles are links, the links will mostly, or entirely, be to my reviews of the books.
- September 17, 2017 note from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
01. Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
02. American Assassins - The Darker Side of Politics - James W. Clarke
03. The Atrocity Exhibition - J.G. Ballard
04. A Void - George Perec
05. The Blaster Al Ackerman Omnibus - "Blaster" Al Ackerman
06. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
07. The Book of Breeething - William S. Burroughs
08. Cassette Mythos - edited by Robin James
09. Concrete Poetry: A World View - Mary Ellen Solt
10. Conversation in the Cathedral - Mario Vargas Llosa
11. Cover to Cover - Michael Snow
12. The Death Ship - B. Traven
13. Experimental Animation: An Illustrated Anthology - Robert Russett & Cecile Starr
14. Experimental Music - Cage & beyond - Michael Nyman
15. Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, 'Pataphysician - Alfred Jarry
16. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
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18. Formalized Music - Iannis Xenakis
19. Gargantua & Pantagruel - Rabelais
20. The German guerrilla: terror, reaction, and resistance - Hans Joachim Klein
21. Grapefruit - Yoko Ono
22. Happenings - Michael Kirby
23. Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
24. How to Write a Resumé - Volume II: Making a Good First Impression - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
25. Impressions of Africa - Raymond Roussel
26. Life A User's Manual - George Perec
27. Locus Solus - Raymond Roussel
28. A Manual for Manuel - Julio Cortazar
29. The Many-Headed Hydra - Marcus Rediker & Peter Linebaugh
30. Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
31. The Monkey's Wrench - Primo Levi
32. Notations - edited by John Cage
33. Paradigm Shift Knuckle Sandwich & other examples of P.N.T. (Perverse Number Theory) - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
34. The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia - Alfred W. McCoy
35. Prisoner of Love - Jean Genet
36. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
37. Robopaths - Lewis Yablonsky
38. The Search for the Perfect Language - Umberto Eco
39. The Sheep Look Up - John Brunner
40. The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs
41. Such is Life - Tom Collins
42. A Suspension of Mercy - Patricia Highsmith
43. t he bk / t he referent 4 wch consists of / t he transparent punch-outs from a letter/whatever stencil - Michael Frederick Tolson et al
44. Thousand Mile Song - David Rothenberg
45. Triton - Sumuel R. Delaney
46. Ulysses - James Joyce
47. Der Untertan - Heinrich Mann
48. Vanishing Voices - The Extinction of the World's Languages - Daniel Nettle & Suzanne Romaine
49. Vertov from Z to A - edited by Peggy Ahwesh & Keith Sanborn
50. Why Birds Sing - David Rothenberg
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