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Books favorably reviewed or recommended by
Amis, 1983-present (click on the title to purchase the book from amazon.com):
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Amis's personal list of the
best Nabokov, in rank order (from his 15 April 1999 talk "Nabokov and Literary
Greatness"):
Nabokov Collections:
 | Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and
Memoirs 1941-1951 : The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Speak, Memory an
Autobiography Revisited (Library)
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| Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1955-1962:
Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire, Lolita : A Screenplay (Library of America, 88)
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| Vladimir Nabokov: Novels 1969-1974:
Ada or Ardor : A Family Chronicle, Transparent Things, Look at the Harlequins! (Library
of America, 89)
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| The Stories
of Vladimir Nabokov
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| Other Amis recommendations:
| Collected
Poems, by Peter Porter ("humour again playing its critical part amid the
complexity and pain"--The Observer, 4 December 1983: 25).
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| The Quantity
Theory of Insanity, by Will Self ("I admired [its] turbulent comedy, . . .
originality . . . sheer braininess"--The Observer, 1 December 1991: 28).
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| Wild Swans:
Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang (". . . made me feel like a
five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social
history"--The Observer, 1 December 1991: 28).
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| U and I,
by Nicholson Baker (". . . very funny, very honest, and ridiculously gripping"--The
Observer, 1 December 1991: 28).
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| Riding the
Rap, by Elmore Leonard (reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, 14
May 1995: 7)
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| Independence
Day, by Richard Ford (recommended as summer reading in the Sunday Times,
6 August 95: 76).
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| Konin: A
Quest, by Theo Richmond (recommended in the Sunday Times, 6 August 95:
76). As Amis notes, the book is "about one city cleansed of jews by the Nazis in the
1940s. The survivors are now all dying and historiography has to take a step back and look
at it once more."
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| The Moor's
Last Sigh, by Salman Rushdie (chosen as "my novel of the year" in the Sunday
Times, 19 November 95: 71).
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| Oswald's
Tale, by Norman Mailer (reviewed in The Sunday Times (London), 10
September 1995: 1-2)
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| Palimpsest,
by Gore Vidal (reviewed in The Sunday Times (London), 22 October 1995: 7/1)
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| Crash,
by J.G. Ballard (re-reviewed in conjunction with the release of David Cronenberg's film
adaptation, The Independent on Sunday, 10 November 1996: 8-9)
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| Underworld, by Don DeLillo (reviewed in The New York Times Book Review,
5 October 1997: 12-13)
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| The Actual,
by Saul Bellow (reviewed in The Observer, 17 August 1997: 14)
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| A Man in
Full, by Tom Wolfe (reviewed in The Guardian, 9 November 1998: 10)
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