Lisa's fiction table

on which I would display the 20 books I find most exciting at the moment (not all of which I have read):

(Novels)
1. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
2. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
3. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
4. Icelander - Dustin Long
5. Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
6. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
7. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (or Slaughterhouse 5)
8. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. At Swim Two Birds - Flann O'Brien
10. Green Grass, Running Water - Thomas King (or The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe)


(Short Stories)
11. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
12. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender (or the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own)
13. Everything that Rises Must Converge - Flannery O'Connor
14. something by Jorge Luis Borges
15. The Lone Pilgrim - Laurie Colwin
16. The Human Country - Harry Matthews
17. The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (or Amy Hemple) (or Grace Paley)





(Plays)
18. Rhinoceros - Eugene Ionesco (preferably in French)












(Poetry)
19. Mother Said - Hal Sirowitz
20. Ballistics - Billy Collins