The Fifty Novels I'd Sort of Like to Read in the Next Few Years or So (Let Me Know If You've Read Any and They're Terrible).
1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro*
2. Arthur and George – Julian Barnes
3. Offshore – Penelope Lively
4. The
5. The Echo Maker – Richard Powers
6. Confederates – Thomas Keneally
7. Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
8. Atonement – Ian McEwan
9. Three Cheers for the Paraclete – Thomas Keneally
10. The World According to Garp – John Irving
11. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving*
12. Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
13. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
14. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
15. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
16. A Long Way Down – Nick Hornby
17. Saturday - Ian McEwan
18. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini*
19. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
20. The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield*
21. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer*
22. Reluctant Prophets and Clueless Disciples – Bob Darden
23. Bee Season – Myla Goldberg
24. The Doctor’s Wife – Brian Moore
25. Precious Bane – Mary Webb
26. March – Geraldine Brooks
27. Winter’s Tale – Mark Helprin
28. Last Orders – Graham Swift
29. Slapstick – Kurt Vonnegut
30. The Baron in the Trees – Italo Calvino
31. Lying Awake – Mark Salzman
32. Coyote Blue – Christopher Moore*
33. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer*
34. Haroun and the
36. The War of the End of the World – Mario Vargas Llosa
37. Quarantine – Jim Crace
38. The Ball and the Cross - G.K. Chesterton
39. The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor – John Barth
40. Independent People – Halldor Laxness
41. An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
42. The Samurai – Shusaku Endo
43. The Diary of a Country Priest – Georges Bernanos
44. Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund
45. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
46. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
47. Love in the Ruins – Walker Percy
48. Jayber Crow – Wendell Berry
49. Brendan – Frederick Buechner
50. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse – Louise Erdrich
Labels: books
posted by John Pierce @ 2:57 PM
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Quarantine is great. Put it at the top of your list unless you want to read it during Lent. Absolutely fantastic book. The language is harsh and ugly to suit the characters, and decidedly less so when it's called for. It's a gritty novel, and all the better for it. The premise is one to ponder, too.
Sorry for commenting something opposite the request in the title. But do bump this one up.
Mira
I haven't read many of them, but I've been intending to. Maybe now that I've graduated I'll have time. I have read The Kite Runner, and it was excellent. I wouldn't recommend it for right around Christmas, though; it's pretty depressing. I loaned it to Brittany, but you can borrow it after her. I also own Everything is Illuminated. I haven't read it yet, but feel free to borrow it. Btw, I still have your leather folder. I got my own for graduation, so I'll be returning it soon.
'Mira,
Reading Quarantine over Lent is a great idea. I think I'll do it then.
Kayla,
I actually got Everything is Illuminated for Christmas. I'm hoping to get to it soon. I hope the folder helped you to get the job (congrats on the new job, by the way, and also on graduating).
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