fav books

so as long as i'm posting a million messages today, i thought i'd post a list of my favorite books. comments are welcome, of course. and suggestions. not that i've got time to read anything that doesn't have a "methods" section, but one day i'll retire, right? among my fav book list, the ones in bold are my ABSOLUTE favorites.

kobo abe

the woman in the dunes

the ark sakura

julian barnes

a history of the world in 10 1/2 chapters

jorge luis borges

ficciones

pearl s. buck

the good earth

mikhail bulgakov

the master and margarita

italo calvino

cosmicomics

lewis carroll

alice in wonderland (lewis carroll is a psycholinguist's multiple orgasm)

henri charriere

papillon

joseph conrad

heart of darkness

charles dickens

a tale of two cities

fyodor dostoevsky

crime and punishment

the brothers karamazov

the idiot

the double

notes from underground

nikolai gogol

dead souls

the nose

hermann hesse

the glass bead game (magister ludi)

siddhartha

narcissus and goldmund

victor hugo

les miserables

aldous huxley

brave new world

zora neale hurston

their eyes were watching god

harper lee

to kill a mockingbird

herman melville

moby dick

john mortimer

rumpole of the bailey books (not exactly great literature, but *very funny*)

vladimir nabokov

the eye

lolita (not the greatest of literature (but I do like the metaphor), but one that gets referred to all the time, so well-read people need to have read it)

steven pinker

the language instinct (the best introduction to psycholinguistics around--reads like a novel, but professionals still refer to it)

vikram seth

the golden gate (a novel in verse)

a suitable boy

evgeny zamyatin

we (the first dystopia novel, written in the early 1920s (of course the first dystopia novel would have been written by a newly soviet man, just after the revolution))