At one point in my younger years I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez, and Invisible Cities by Calvino all back to back.

At one point in my younger years I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 100 Years of Solitude by Marquez, and Invisible Cities by Calvino all back to back. These books changed me for the better at the time and I think about scenes from each in my daily life all in about the same sort of way. Beautiful imagery, pointed human condition takeaways. Got under my skin and stayed there. Unbearable Lightness had such a quality in the writing that stuck with me wherein he would twist a scene into something else in the span of a paragraph or two. There's a scene wherein Tereza goes to the top of a hill that comes to mind. The entire opening of the book was at the time unlike anything else I had read. Makes me want to go re-read that era of my life again and explore more of each of those author's works.