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Here's one's I've read and enjoyed. It's a really good genre.

Stoner - John Williams
The Birthday Party - Panoz Karnezis
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende

So much fun to read this genre. Stuff showing a large chunk of someone's life, or their whole life, and sometimes, several generations of the same family. I also really like the common style of prose, because there's hardly any dialogue, and the prose is dense, and therefore rereadable. We need a lot more books like this.

>> No.4950976

Kill yourself.

>> No.4950979

>The Son - Philipp Meyer

Literally described by retards and non-readers as 'the heir apparent to Hemingway and McCarthy,' but the book is actually very good. Really cool non-whitewashy non-nativewashy portrayal of Native Americans, multiple viewpoints with no 'that boring POV character' nonsense and really solid, smooth writing.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is obligatory too.

>> No.4950982

Well two obvious ones that come to mind are 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude' and 'Midnight's Children'

>> No.4950987

>>4950982

I've read OHYOS, and was bored to death. Horrible book. Took a week to read. I sometimes read 20 pages a day. I don't remember what I hated, but I do remember hating it.

>> No.4950997

>>4950987
Kill yourself.

>> No.4951005

Point Counter Point

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>>4950987
It's a shame you couldn't see the magic in it OP, considering it's almost exactly the sort of book you say you want to find more of.

>> No.4951068

los buddenbrookos

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>>4950974
I'll keep these Allende titles in mind. I've ben wondering if I should venture into her stuff at all.
I'm still kind of burnt out by reading three Amy Tan novels I've read. Kitchen Gods Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, were both nice.

Lit has recommended Sometimes a Great Notion, too.

>> No.4953419

>>4950974
>The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
>Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
>Portrait in Sepia - Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende is a, “scribbler” whose “attempts at literature range from kitsch to the pathetic.” -- Bolano

>> No.4953448

>>4953419
Bolaño was right. It's beyond me why anyone pays her any sort of attention, but she did good to duck in under the repulsive cover of the USA's handicap-for-esteem women and minorities automatically get.

"La casa de los espíritus" is a truly embarrassing work. To list it among other books is just about as shameful and disheartening as seeing Sunhawk's name among /lit/'s trips.