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Hey /lit/, I'm looking for a good novel to read. Doesn't matter what genre it is or who wrote it or anything like that, so long as it's not shitty.

tl;dr: ITT - we post fucking amazing novels.

>> No.3143867

"The Life and Death of a Cockroach" - OP

>> No.3143864
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>> No.3143868

Book of the New Sun

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>>3143864
this
pic related: also this

>> No.3143916

The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck.
I just finished that book, it took me a few days, but damn, that was one of the best books I've ever read.

>> No.3144013

"One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez

>> No.3144024

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Number9Dream by David Mitchell

Out Backward by Ross Raisin

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

The Good Father by Noah Hawley

Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk by Ben Fountain

>> No.3144030

>>3143864
Getting real tired of this shit.

I love Ulysses, but it does not need to be recommended in every single thread.

OP: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

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>>3144024
>>3144030
>>3143914

Agreeing hard with the Steinbeck and Faulkner recommendations. I'm currently reading Brothers Karamazov, and it's excellent.

My recommendation: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Pic related.

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

>> No.3144297

Mother Night.

>>3144250
Seconding Cat's Cradle.

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>>3143857
Always been a fan of this book. Get ready to embrace the feels of being a Chinese farmer during their civil war.

>> No.3144367

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

>> No.3144406

>>3144306
+100000
Have you read the sequels to it yet? Apparently, it was made into a trilogy. The sequels follow the lives of the sons after Wang Lung passes away.

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>> No.3144553

>>3144406

Not the person you're replying to, but I thought that The Good Earth really spoke for itself (what with the heavily implied "history repeats itself" at the end), and I've been hesitant to pick up any of the sequels.

>> No.3144587

>>3144024
Didn't like of nice and men

>> No.3144612

>>3143868
A true mensch

>> No.3144618

>>3144539
I get that it was the 60's and shit but that's a pretty bad cover for the book.

>> No.3144720

Let it Come Down

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This.

>> No.3144744

>>3143914
I'm reading that right now. Should I have read C&P before it?

>> No.3144747

>nobody's posted Infinite Jest yet
I'm disappointed, /lit/.

>> No.3144754

>>3144747
2prose4me

>> No.3144762

>>3143864
>>3143868
>>3143914
>>3144030
Seconded.
Also: Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, Blood Meridian.

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>that ending

>> No.3144784

>>3144762

>Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon

Which would you recommend first?

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>>3144763

I c wut u did thar

>> No.3144833

>>3144784

Mason & Dixon, it has more of a 'heart'. if you read that first, by the time you get to GR you'll be too impressed by pynchon to stop for lack of warmth or whatever

>> No.3144849

I read "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter Miller Jr. last week. I thought it was very good.

>> No.3144867

>>3144833

I had a feeling this would be the case, thanks.

>> No.3144918

Two of the most exciting contemprary (2011, 2012) novels I've read this year were self published books.....I'm not gonna post links or anything unless anyone is interested, but they're both good. One is billed as a "fictional biography of kobe bryant"....

the guy is one of the few people doing great high modernism today, in the vein of michel houlelbecq (sp) and will self, liminov, and inspired by celine. its all great stuff, let me know if this sounds like stuff you guys wouldnt hate. also no im not the author its just hard to recommend people a book on title alone when its qualifications are

>2012
>self published on amazon

>> No.3145028

>>3143857

Read some Orwell, bitches love Orwell.
I recently grabbed Down and Out in Paris and London and I have yet to read it, but his other works are stacked with depth and masterwork.

>> No.3146459

>>3145028
everyone loves orwell

>> No.3146586

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
I had always thought I'd hate Dickens, but it's really one of the most entertaining novels I've read. Gets to be a real page turner, once you're into it.