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Ok /lit/, so I've read pretty much everything there is to read from the usual canon and recommended readings. Please, recommend me a book that I probably have not heard of. I'm dying to read new stuff!

Some of my favorite authors: JL Borges, Raymond Carver, J.D. Salinger, DFW, Roberto Bolano, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov.

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>> No.6491933

bump

>> No.6491940
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>>6491925
Read some Hawkes. I guarantee you, you'll be one of maybe 2 or three people on /lit/ who actually has.

>> No.6491950

>>6491940
Also as far as specific books go:

The Cannibal
The Lime Twig
The Blood Oranges

>> No.6491958

>>6491950
>Hawkes

yay, never heard of him. thanks for this. what's he like?

>> No.6491980

>>6491925
Hannah Arendt doesn't get much love around here.

>> No.6491987

>>6491958
Postmodern in that he disregarded generally accepted storytelling structures. He used very visceral imagery. If I had to sum up his style in a word, intense.

>> No.6492031

>>6491980

I love her. I majored in sociology so I've read her quite a few times.

>> No.6492087

Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Tayeb Salih - Season of Migration to the North
Andrea Barrett - Ship Fever
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children

>> No.6492169

WG Sebald
James Salter
Yoko Ogawa
Danilo Kis
William T Vollmann
Nathaniel West
Denis Johnson
Michael Ondaatje

>> No.6492184

>>6492087
>>6492169

thanks a lot!!

>> No.6492196

>>6492087
>Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day

this is one of my favorite books