kinda random post part 1

My friend Rob started a thread asking folks to list their version of MLA's 100 Best Novels. See his insightful list here, see the wonderful Dr. Wright's list here, and my list is below:

1. Crow by Ted Hughes
2. The Book of Nightmares by Galway Kinnell
3. Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Paradise Lost by John Milton
5. Psalms 46:10a by David
6. Walking by Henry David Thoreau
7. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea by Robert Smith
8. God by Tupac Shakur
9. Holy Sonnet 14 by John Donne
10. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
11. The Bhagavad Gita by Vyasa
12. Ulysses by James Joyce
13. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
14. The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
15. Watership Down by Richard Adams
16. Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds
17. The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
18. Everville by Clive Barker
19. A Forest by Robert Smith
20. The Over-Soul by Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
22. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
23. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
24. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
25. The Spiral Road by Jan de Hartog
26. Hyper Ballad by Bjork
27. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
28. SubUrbia by Eric Bogosian
29. The Food Chain by Geoff Nicholson
30. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
31. Macaria by Augusta Jane Evans
32. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
33. Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
34. Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
35. Dream of the Rood by unknown
36. The Tempest by Shakespeare
37. Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
38. The Great Lawsuit by Margaret Fuller
39. The World of the Dark Crystal by Brian Froud
40. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note by Amiri Baraka

As soon as I whittled my list down to 40 (he only asked for 20), I immediately was unsatisfied, both with the contents and ordering. However, for now, it will stand.

Feel free to post your own list here or over on Rob's blog. He's cool like that.

shanti,
mjh