 | Lost in the Funhouse (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.90 The postmodern short fiction masterpiece that you probably read in college. If you loved it, keep reading. Otherwise, Amazon has a lovely collection of Joan Collins books for you to peruse.
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 | Chimera by John Barth
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 Winner of the National Book Award, yet still accessible. A brilliant reconstruction of both Occidental and Oriental myth.
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 | Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth
Buy new: $20.70 / Used from: $2.92 Barth's masterpiece. Unbelievably clever, extraordinarily wise, gutwrenchingly funny. Oh, and quite long too.
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 | The Sot-Weed Factor (The Anchor Literary Library) by John Barth
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $2.28 Barth's breakthrough novel, a historical satire in the vein of Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" (but written 30 years earlier).
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 | Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, The by John Barth
Buy used from: $0.01 A splendid return to form for Barth to his days of Fabulism. If you enjoyed "Giles Goat-Boy" and "Sot-Weed Factor," try this one.
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 | On with the Story: Stories by John Barth
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.01 The best collection of postmodern stories since... oh, "Lost in the Funhouse." Older and more mature than "Funhouse," but almost as fun.
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 | The Floating Opera and The End of the Road by John Barth
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.39 Barth's first two novels in one volume. Remarkably conventional and devoid of postmodern tricks, but still full of that trademark Barth wit and wisdom.
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 | Sabbatical by John Barth
Buy used from: $2.96 A quick and pleasant read. The quintessential semi-autobiographical sailing novel of Barth's later years.
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 | The Friday Book (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Professor John Barth
Buy used from: $3.61 The essential collection of Barth's non-fiction, including his famous essays "The Literature of Exhaustion" and "The Literature of Replenishment."
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 | Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera by John Barth
Buy used from: $0.25 Is it a novel, or is it an autobiography? Leave it to John Barth to muddy the distinction. Charming and provocative, if not totally satisfying.
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 | The Tidewater Tales (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by John Barth
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $2.05 "Sabbatical" on steroids. Mainly for Barth completists.
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 | Letters: A Novel by John Barth
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $1.99 Non-Barthomaniacs need not apply. Read Barth's first six books before attempting this one, and keep an encyclopedia handy.
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 | Coming Soon!!! by John Barth
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $0.01 Barth's latest fictional foray, and not his best by a longshot. Barth's back to his narrative sleight of hand here, but without the soul.
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| Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 - 1994 by John Barth
Buy used from: $0.01 More non-fiction, a la "The Friday Book." If you've gotten this far in the Barth oeuvre, you've probably read it all before.
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