100 Best Novels: How Many Have I Read?

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I've only read 13 of them, but like you, I have a bunch waiting in line on my shelf.

It always cracks me up when I see Finnegan's Wake on a list for the best anything. I truly believe Joyce wrote that as a joke and is somewhere in his grave right now, laughing at the people who consider it "good" literature and devote their lives to studying it. The only thing remotely interesting about it is that it's a circular novel. There is no ending and no beginning.

The other Joyce stuff on the list is wonderful though. Dubliners should be on there.

Yes, I'd much rather have seen Dubliners in that list, it's a wonderful short story cycle. There's some other stuff I would have added or taken away, but it was a fun exercise, and since I've got a bunch of those books on by precariously balanced TBR stack, it will be an evolving post for sure.

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