I recently read Lolita and in addition to being blown away by Nabokov’s beautiful prose, I was also surprised by how many words I was unfamiliar with. What other books would you recommend to enrich someone’s vocabulary? by Garashir
15volt on December 5, 2023 1:54 pm The master of unfamiliar words is Cormac McCarthy. However, if it’s the beautiful prose you’re after, there’s none better than Barry Lopez. Start with *Horizon*.
SnapdragonCookie on December 5, 2023 5:39 pm Babel by R.F Kuang. It was published in 2022 but reads like a classic. It has endless amounts of words per chapter that you can learn. in general it’s also very good
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*Catch-22* by Joseph Heller.
The master of unfamiliar words is Cormac McCarthy.
However, if it’s the beautiful prose you’re after, there’s none better than Barry Lopez. Start with *Horizon*.
Babel by R.F Kuang. It was published in 2022 but reads like a classic. It has endless amounts of words per chapter that you can learn.
in general it’s also very good