no way one could put her or his favourite books in an order of appreciation= , so here they are (not even alphabeticaly): Douglas Coupland - Microserfs Nick Cave - And the ass saw the angel Shakespeare - Richard III (I know it's not from this century, but time didn't get hold of this one) Raymond Carver - Where I'm calling from B. E. Ellis - American Psycho Franz Kafka - The trial Alan Warner - Movern Callar Roddy Doyle - The van Jose Saramago - Blindness Jean-Paul Sartre - The wall Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 years of solitude Don Delillo - Underworld John Irving - The world according to Garp S.F Fitzgerald - The great Gatsby (thanks to bananafish) Antoine de Saint-Exup=E9ry - The little prince Frank Zappa - The real Frank Zappa Book and of course: JD Salinger's Catcher, F&Z, 9S, Raise High&Seymore and most of his uncollected stories... and three Dutch books, I don't know if they are even translated in English, so I translated the titles myself: Gerard Reve - The evenings A. F. Th. Van der Heijden - The toothless time Tom Lanoye - Carton Boxes