Books and albums it took me awhile to get into

Discover the books and albums that grew on me over time. A curated list of slow-burn reads and listens worth the patience for any avid reader or music lover.

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The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse

Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all …
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Kolyma Tales

by Varlam Shalamov

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent …
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Steppenwolf

by Hermann Hesse

An autobiographical novel featuring Harry Haller in "an experimental mix of symbolism, realism, and fantasy."--Cover.
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A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge …
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Cancer Ward

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant …
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