I second 100 years of Solitude. It was our family book; everyone read it. One day my son was in his English class in high school and the teacher asked, "Has a

I second 100 years of Solitude. It was our family book; everyone read it. One day my son was in his English class in high school and the teacher asked, "Has anyone heard of Gabriel Garcia Marquez?" My son answered, "He won the Nobel Prize." The teacher asked, "What for?" My son reached into his backpack and pulled Out One Hundred Years of Solitude, and replied, "This."