Donald Barthelme’s Reading List

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A reading list of 81 Books, chosen by the father of post-modern fiction

• Flann O’Brien, At Swim Two-Birds
• Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman
• Isaac Babel, Collected Short Stories
• Borges, Labyrinths
• Borges, Other Inquisitions
• Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Thomas Bernhard, Correction
• Rudy Wurlitzer, Nog
• Isaac B Singer, Gimpel the Fool
• Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
• Bernard Malamud, The Magic Barrel

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