MY LIST OF FAVORITE BOOKS
Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim
Barth, John Chimera
Bolano, Roberto The Savage Detectives
Borges, Jorge Luis Labyrinth
Borges, Jorge Luis Collected Fiction
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange--
Burgess, Anthony Any Old Iron
Burgess, Anthony A Dead Man In Deptford
Capote, Truman In Cold Blood(NF)
Carroll, Lewis Alice In Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis Through The Looking Glass
Cathcart, Brian The Fly In The Cathedral
Conrad, Joseph Victory
Cozzens, James Gould Guard Of Honor
Darwin, Charles The Origin Of Species(NF)
Dawkins, Richard The God Delusion
Dawkins, Richard The Selfish Gene
Diaz, Junot The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Crime and Punishment--
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor The Brothers Karamazov
Eco, Umberto Foucault's Pendulum
Eco, Umberto The Name Of The Rose
Edmonds, David Rousseau's Dog
Felsman, Burton 112 Mercer Street(NF)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Fowles, John The Magus
Frayn, Michael Headlong--
Frayn, Michael Copenhagen(P)
Gardner, John Grendel----
Gardner, John Sunlight Dialogues
Gardner, John Wreckage of Agathon
Gardner, John Mickelsson's Ghosts
Gardner, John The Art Of Living
Gleick, James Genius
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Goldstein, Rebecca Incompleteness:Proof and Paradox of Godel(NF)
Goldstein, Rebecca Properties Of Light
Gould, Stephen Jay The Mismeasure of Man(NF)
Gould, Stephen Jay The Panda's Thumb(NF)
Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum
Greene, Graham The Power And The Glory
Greene, Graham Brighton Rock
Greene, Graham Travels With My Aunt
Heller,. Joseph Catch 22
Hemingway, Earnest The Old Man And The Sea
Hemingway, Earnest The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Earnest A Farewell To Arms
Hofstadter, Douglas Godel, Escher, Bach(NF)
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World--
Huxley, Aldous Apes and Essence
Irving, John The World According To Garp--
Irving, John A Prayer For Owen Meany
Japrisot, Sebastien A Very Long Engagement--
Japrisot, Sebastien Lady In Car With Glasses and Gun
Kafka, Franz Metamorphosis--
Kafka, Franz The Trial
LeCarre, John Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy--
LeCarre, John Smiley's People
Lee, Harper To Kill A Mockingbird
Llosa, JorgeM.Vargas In Praise Of The Stepmother
Mailer, Norman The Naked And The Dead
McEwan, Ian Saturday
McEwan, Ian Atonement
McEwan, Ian Enduring Love
Melville, Herman Moby Dick
Mortimer, John Summer's Lease--
Mortimer, John The Rumpole stories
Nabokov, Vladimir Lolita
O'Neill, Eugene Long Days Journey Into Night
O'Neill, Eugene Mourning Becomes Electra
Orwell, George 1984--
Orwell, George Animal Farm
Powers, Richard The Goldbug Variations--
Powers, Richard Galatea 2.2
Powers, Richard Three Farmers On Their Way To A Dance
Powers, Richard Prisoner's Dilemma
Powers, Thomas Heisenberg's War(NF)
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Roth, Philip Portnoy's Complaint
Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses--
Rushdie, Salman Shalimar The Clown
Salinger, J.D. Catcher In The Rye
Segre, Gino Faust In Copenhagen(NF)
Shakespeare, William Complete Works
Skinner, B.F. Walden II
Sophocles Antigone(P)
Sophocles Oedipus Rex(P)
Styron, William Sophie's Choice
Tolstoy, War and Peace
Trollope, Anthony Barchester Towers
Tuchman, Barbara The March Of Folly
Twain, Mark Huckleberry Finn
Updike, John Rabbit At Rest----
Updike, John Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John Bech books
Vidal, Gore Palimpsest
Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five
Watson, James The Double Helix
Wodehouse, P.G. The World Of Jeeves
Yourcenar, Marguerite The Abyss

As a caddy in Scotland once remarked (in an Updike short story) "'E kin tel a'boot a mon by th' wai 'e gowfs. Which is to say the list says more about me than perhaps I should say.