Novels I recommend

Discover top-rated novels I highly recommend! Explore my curated list of must-read books across genres to find your next captivating read.

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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, long-suffering art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into …
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The Feast of the Goat

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the …
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The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, renowned as a master of magical realism, creates stories that grip the imagination. Set in exotic locals, peoples with unforgettable characters, and …
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Ada, Or Ardor

by Vladimir Nabokov

Originally published by McGraw Hill Book Company in 1969.
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Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible …
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

by Julian Barnes

A “playful, witty, and entertaining” book (The New York Times Book Review) that offers an exhilarating vision of the world, starting with the voyage of …
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Flaubert's parrot

 

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Buddenbrooks

 

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The Plague

by Albert Camus

“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even …