This year I’ve really come to appreciate big, thick books, and I’ve got a Christmas gift card to my local indie bookstore burning a hole in my pocket.
I’ve read Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, am in the throes of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, and I’ve got Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais on the docket. I’m wondering what you would recommend I get with my holiday funds, something that I can spend a good long while immersed in.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson if you’re into fantasy
Les Miserables
Anything by James Michener (I enjoyed the Covenant and Hawaii)
Shogun
Lonesome Dove
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is an excellent read and pretty chunky.
The master and Margarita by Bulgakov. A wonderful read with extraordinary story telling
If you are in for a huge book, Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
One SF Canticle for Leibowitz
Lonesome Dove
Prince of Tides
East of Eden
Gone with the Wind
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson. Three giant tones.