Donald Bartheleme's Recommendations
Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced BAR-thəl-mee; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. These are the books he recommended to his students.
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At Swim-Two-Birds
Flann O'Brien · 1939 · 7 lists
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien · 1967 · 5 lists
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel · 2002 · 2 lists
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Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges · 2005 · 5 lists
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Other Inquisitions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1964 · 1 list
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
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Correction
Thomas Bernhard · 2001 · 2 lists
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Nog
Rudy Wurlitzer · 1986 · 1 list
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Gimpel the Fool
Isaac Bashevis Singer · 1957 · 2 lists
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The Assistant
Bernard Malamud · 1744 · 2 lists
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The Magic Barrel
Bernard Malamud · 1953 · 3 lists
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947 · 15 lists
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Hunger
Knut Hamsun · 1890 · 8 lists
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I'm Not Stiller
Max Frisch · 1901 · 4 lists
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Man in the Holocene
Max Frisch · 1994 · 1 list
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Seven Gothic Tales
Isak Dinesen · 1934 · 1 list
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Gogol's Wife
Tommaso Landolfi · 1963 · 1 list
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V.
Thomas Pynchon · 1600 · 5 lists
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The Lime Twig
John Hawkes · 1961 · 1 list
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Blood Oranges
John Hawkes · 1971 · 1 list
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Little Disturbances
Grace Paley · 1959 · 3 lists
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · 1974 · 2 lists
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I, etcetera
Susan Sontag · 1978 · 1 list
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Tell Me a Riddle
Tillie Olsen · 1961 · 2 lists
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell · 1949 · 2 lists
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Henderson the Rain King
Saul Bellow · 1958 · 4 lists
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The Coup
John Updike · 1978 · 1 list
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Rabbit, Run
John Updike · 1960 · 12 lists
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How We Live
Rust Hills · 1968 · 1 list
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Superfiction
Joe David Bellamy · 1975 · 1 list
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The Paris Review Interviews
Paris Review · 2006 · 1 list
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Pushcart Prize Anthology
Pushcart Prize · 2004 · 1 list
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The Writer on Her Work
Janet Sternburg · 1980 · 1 list
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Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton · 1945 · 1 list
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Documents of Modern Art
Robert Motherwell · 1975 · 1 list
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Against Interpretation
Susan Sontag · 1966 · 3 lists
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A Homemade World
Hugh Kenner · 1974 · 1 list
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The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
Gustave Flaubert · 2018 · 2 lists
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago
David Mamet · 1977 · 1 list
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The Changeling
Victor LaValle · 2017 · 2 lists
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The New Fiction
Joe David Bellamy · 1974 · 1 list
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Going After Cacciato
Tim O'Brien · 1975 · 2 lists
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutola · 1952 · 1 list
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Searching for Caleb
Anne Tyler · 1976 · 1 list
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Thank You and Other Poems
Kenneth Koch · 1962 · 1 list
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Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Frank O'Hara · 1971 · 1 list
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Rivers and Mountains
John Ashbery · 1966 · 2 lists
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Tragic Magic
Wesley Brown · 1995 · 1 list
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Mythologies
Roland Barthes · 1957 · 1 list
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The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes · 1975 · 1 list
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For a New Novel
Alain Robbe-Grillet · 1982 · 1 list
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Falling in Place
Ann Beattie · 1980 · 1 list
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
William H. Gass · 1968 · 2 lists
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Fiction and the Figures of Life
William H. Gass · 1970 · 1 list
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The World Within the Word
William H. Gass · 1978 · 1 list
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Advertisements for Myself
Norman Mailer · 1959 · 1 list
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1962 · 17 lists
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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932 · 12 lists
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The Box Man
Kobo Abe · 1973 · 1 list
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 1972 · 7 lists
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Peter Handke · 1972 · 1 list
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Kaspar and Other Plays
Peter Handke · 1969 · 1 list
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Nadja
André Breton · 1928 · 4 lists
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Chimera
John Barth · 1972 · 2 lists
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The Moviegoer
Walker Percy · 1961 · 8 lists
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Black Tickets
Jayne Anne Phillips · 1979 · 1 list
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Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor · 2009 · 1 list
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Will You Please be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver · 1976 · 1 list
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The Oranging of America
Max Apple · 1976 · 1 list
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Mumbo Jumbo
Ishmael Reed · 1972 · 3 lists
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · 14 lists
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes · 2006 · 3 lists
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · 2019 · 3 lists
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The Rhetoric of Fiction
Wayne C. Booth · 1961 · 1 list
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The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · 1978 · 9 lists
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Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth · 1968 · 1 list
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I Would Have Saved Them If I Could
Leonard Michaels · 1975 · 1 list
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty · 1980 · 4 lists
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The Complete Dramatic Works Of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett · 2006 · 1 list
