in no particular order
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
* Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
* The Fat Man In History - Peter Carey
* The Bible, esp The Psalms, Song of Songs, & the book of
Job
* Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
* Drug Poems - Michael Dransfield
* Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
* The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
* Heartsongs - E. Annie Proulx
* A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Flannery O'Conner
with guernseys to Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', the plays of Ibsen
and Chekhov,
I could go on and on and tomorrow this list would be different!
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