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Donald Barthelme's 81 Books Essential for a Literary Education - Page 2

The list has a somewhat illustrious heritage. Compiled by postmodernist writer Donald Barthelme for his students at the University of Houston, it then made its way to Barthelme's student, Southern writer Padgett Powell. The list then came to Moffett when he was a student of Powell's at the University of Florida.
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago (David Mamet)
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
41
David Mamet
The Changeling
The Changeling
42
The New Fiction (Joe David Bellamy (Ed.))
The New Fiction
43
Joe David Bellamy (Ed.)
Going After Cacciato
Going After Cacciato
44
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Amos Tutuola)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
45
Amos Tutuola
Searching for Caleb (Anne Tyler)
Searching for Caleb
46
Anne Tyler
Thank You (Kenneth Koch)
Thank You
47
Kenneth Koch
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (Frank O'Hara)
The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
48
Frank O'Hara
Rivers and Mountains (John Ashbery)
Rivers and Mountains
49
John Ashbery
Tragic Magic (Wesley Brown)
Tragic Magic
50
Wesley Brown
Mythologies
Mythologies
51
The Pleasure of the Text (Barthes)
The Pleasure of the Text
52
Barthes
For a New Novel
For a New Novel
53
Falling in Place (Ann Beattie)
Falling in Place
54
Ann Beattie
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
55
Fiction and the Figures of Life (William Gass)
Fiction and the Figures of Life
56
William Gass
The World Within the Word (William Gass)
The World Within the Word
57
William Gass
Advertisements for Myself
Advertisements for Myself
58
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
59
Anthony Burgess
Journey to the End of the Night (Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Journey to the End of the Night
60
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The Box Man (Kobo Abe)
The Box Man
61
Kobo Abe
Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino)
Invisible Cities
62
Italo Calvino
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Peter Handke)
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
63
Peter Handke
Kaspar (Peter Handke)
Kaspar
64
Peter Handke
Nadja (André Breton)
Nadja
65
André Breton
Chimera
Chimera
66
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
The Moviegoer
67
Walker Percy
Black Tickets (Jayne Anne Phillips)
Black Tickets
68
Jayne Anne Phillips
Collected Stories (Peter Taylor)
Collected Stories
69
Peter Taylor
The Pure and Impure (T Collette)
The Pure and Impure
70
T Collette
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver)
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
71
Raymond Carver
The Stories of John Cheever (John Cheever)
The Stories of John Cheever
72
John Cheever
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could (Leonard Michaels)
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
73
Leonard Michaels
The Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty
The Collected Short Stories of Eudora Welty
74
The Oranging of America (Max Apple)
The Oranging of America
75
Max Apple
Flannery O'Conner the Complete Stories (Flannery O'Conner)
Flannery O'Conner the Complete Stories
76
Flannery O'Conner
Mumbo Jumbo
Mumbo Jumbo
77
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon
78
Toni Morrison
The Death of Artemio Cruz (Carlos Fuentes)
The Death of Artemio Cruz
79
Carlos Fuentes
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
80
Milan Kundera
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