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Foreign: * Life: a users manual by George s Perec. * Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal * Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti Domestic: These are harder because
by asimpletune 8y ago
Foreign:
* Life: a users manual by George s Perec.
* Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal
* Auto-da-fe by Elias Canetti
Domestic:
These are harder because I feel like they’re all pretty well known, but maybe they’re not actually read. Like, known bc people have heard the name, but are not read as much anymore.
* Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
* Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
* Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Actually unknown (but super good) domestic:
* Stuff by Larry McMurtry (only famous for lonesome dove)
- egourlao 8y agoAlso noteworthy, from Georges Perec: A Void (La Disparition), which was written entirely without using the letter "e" (and which the translation reproduces brilliantly well).
- howenterprisey 8y agoMason & Dixon by Pynchon is also very, very good.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoThat book is incredible and made me feel uneducated. There are so many references and jokes in that book to historical events, other books, etc. I knew enough to realize how much of that book was going right over my head.