Reading Room I Smith’s Top Ten
Ooh, it’s highly uncharacteristic for me to advertise a positive denotion of quality for anything and slightly less characteristic for me to advertise a definitely hierarchical list of same. hm, but i will make a slight aberration of persona to establish a datum for the cause of generating (with others) a suitable supplement to my associates’ and my literary orientation and produce an alphabetically arranged list of authors and the most notable works

djuna barnes: nightwood
arthur c. clarke: 2001: a space odyssey
joseph conrad: heart of darkness
james joyce: finnegans wake, portrait of the artist as a young man, ulysses
roberta. heinlein: stranger in a strange land
aldous huxley: eyeless in gaza
h. p. lovecraft: the call of cthulhu, the dunwich horror
fritz leiber: adept’s gambit
lucretius: de rerum natura
ovid: the metamorphoses
jean-paul sartre: nausea, the wall
j. r. r. tolkien: the lord of the rings, the silmarillion
dylan thomas: portrait of the artist as a young dog
various contributors: oxford unabridged english and latin dictionaries

That’s twenty attributed to thirteen. Satisfied?

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