The Guardian shares Zacappa’s fetish for top 10 lists of must reads -preferably exotic in nature- varying from underground welsh scribblings to unputdownable Chinese masterworks to favorable literary stepmothers to unbeatable boxing books to LA Noir Novels to a seamless endless collection of collections. As a meta masterpiece they have collected a top 1000 of must reads, divided in a few not-so-spectacular categories. Praise, praise.
Archive for the ‘Top 10’ Category
On Guard: Meta Top 10 link
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Top 10: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
A A literary guide to Japanese Literature
Friday, September 22nd, 2006
“I am drawn to books that illuminate the austere rigor of beauty that’s the essence of Japanese culture.” Kyoko Mori writes a very personal literary guide to Japanese literature on Salon.com
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel at least addresses this by offering the opportunity to take time to plan for reading, to consider great works of fiction for the first time or a second time, to be reminded of the art of writing.
Read full article at The Australian
Top 10: Hypochondriacs [Tyee books]
Saturday, June 17th, 2006
“Here are some titles that hypochondriacs should avoid like, um, the plague.”
* Fighting the Killer Flu by Betty O’Keefe and Ian Macdonald
* Canada and the Deadly Flu of 1918 by Eileen Pettigrew
* The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase (more…)
Men and Women
Thursday, June 15th, 2006
We found that men do not regard books as a constant companion to their life’s journey, as consolers or guides, as women do… They read novels a bit like they read photography manuals. [Lisa Jardine, from the University of London's Queen Mary College]
Read full article at Sydney Morning herald
Top 10: The darker side of adolescence [Mill]
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006
1. Lord of The Flies by William Golding
2. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
4. Boy Kills Man by Matt Whyman
5. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan (more…)
Top 10: Novels [banned from high school]
Sunday, May 28th, 2006
* The Awakening by Kate Chopin
* The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
* Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (It should be illegal for kids not to read this book.)
* Beloved by Toni Morrison (Take that New York Times best book of the last 25 years.)
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