Hi! In the recent two years I haven’t been able to read more than 2-3 books I can wholeheartedly call Great. Of course, it’s a subjective matter, but this subreddit has given me amazing recommendations before, and I hope to find help this time, as well.
A little about what I struggle with: classics, very heavy historical literature.
I love: confusing stories, even if no answer to what happens
What I found to be Great books:
Blindness (Saramago)
The Hike (Magary)
I who have never known men (Harpman)
The first fifteen lives of Harry August (North)
Vita Nostra (Dyachenko)
Let the right one in (Lindqvist)
A short stay in hell (Peck)
Piranesi (Clarke)
Thank you in advance, friends!
by zvlzhn
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The Lord of Light by R. Zelazny
The Egyptian by M. Waltari
The Count of Monte Cristo by A. Dumas
The Magus by John Fowles
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
*The Catcher in the Rye* by J. D. Salinger
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Sharak
Life After Life by Kate Atchinson
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Try a month in the Country by JL Carr
Knausgard – the morning star
Yanagihara – a little life
Fallaci – a man
McConaghy – migrations
Ugresic- the ministry of pain
Hustved – what I loved
Hoeg -Smilla’s sense of snow
Irving – prayer for owen meany ( my fave)