Richard Hugo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hugo) wrote a fairly interesting mystery novel (Death and the Good Life, 1981). Not a "literary" novel, which I guess is what one had to write to be considered for that list. (I've read only one of the books on the list--The Bell Jar--so I have no comment on the quality f the books there.)
Rick beat me to Leonard Cohen. He's best known today as a singer- songwriter, but in the 1960s he published several volumes of poetry and two novels: THE FAVORITE GAME and BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, if which the latter is the best. I wrote an FFB about it for Canadian authors week.
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Richard Hugo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hugo) wrote a fairly interesting mystery novel (Death and the Good Life, 1981). Not a "literary" novel, which I guess is what one had to write to be considered for that list. (I've read only one of the books on the list--The Bell Jar--so I have no comment on the quality f the books there.)
I'd add Leonard Cohen's "Beautiful Losers" (He was a highly regarded poet especially in his native Canada before he started a recording career.)
Rick beat me to Leonard Cohen. He's best known today as a singer- songwriter, but in the 1960s he published several volumes of poetry and two novels: THE FAVORITE GAME and BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, if which the latter is the best. I wrote an FFB about it for Canadian authors week.
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