Lost in the Funhouse | Suggested Reading

Lost in the Funhouse What Do I Read Next?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  (1964) by Irish writer James Joyce is a classic coming of age story about a young man and is considered one of the benchmarks of modernism as well as one of the inspirations for Barth's Ambrose.

"The School," (1976) by Donald Barthelme, is a postmodern story in which dim-witted teachers are completely unable to understand reality while third graders speak like eloquent college professors.

Pale Fire (1962) by Vladimir Nabokov is a unique work of satire about literary scholarship. The novel, an interesting experiment in narrative technique, includes a 999-line poem with accompanying exegesis.

Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Latin American magic realism by one of Barth's favorite writers.