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Hello literati friends and bibliophiles! Inspired by the resurrection of the top-25 albums thread by Necropolis, let's revisit our GOAT books (and get some recommendations in the process!)
It's been a couple years since this thread, and in the interim, I - and I'm sure many of you who participated before - have read many more books. My list has seen a pretty significant overhaul.
And before it's asked, yeah - non-fiction counts.
1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. Blindness - Jose Saramago
3. The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
4. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
6. The Power & the Glory - Graham Greene
7. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
8. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
9. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
10. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
11. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
13. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
14. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
15. The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddaratha Mukherjee
16. The Humans - Matt Haig
17. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
18. HHhH - Laurent Binet
19. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
20. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
21. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
22. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
23. Just Kids - Patti Smith
24. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
25. Nausea - J.P. Sartre
It's been a couple years since this thread, and in the interim, I - and I'm sure many of you who participated before - have read many more books. My list has seen a pretty significant overhaul.
And before it's asked, yeah - non-fiction counts.
1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. Blindness - Jose Saramago
3. The War of the End of the World - Mario Vargas Llosa
4. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
6. The Power & the Glory - Graham Greene
7. Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
8. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
9. Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann
10. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
11. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
12. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
13. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
14. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
15. The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddaratha Mukherjee
16. The Humans - Matt Haig
17. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
18. HHhH - Laurent Binet
19. The Tin Drum - Günter Grass
20. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
21. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimananda Ngozi Adichie
22. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
23. Just Kids - Patti Smith
24. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
25. Nausea - J.P. Sartre