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Originally Posted by Andanzas
I am not sure about your literary tastes, as I haven't read the writers you mention, but here are some books I found in Connect that I think are good:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (I bought it from Connect, but I can't find it right now. This is a very dark and sad novel, so buy it only if you don't mind a little bit of depression  )
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. If you like character development, I think you might enjoy this. Besides, if you read him now, you will be able to say that you read him before he was awarded the Nobel prize. 
My Name is Red by Orham Pamuk. Very baroque and lyric. It takes place in Istanbul in the fifteenth century (if I remember correctly) and it's an intereting view on the conflict between Western and Islamic societies. It's also a love story and a crime investigation.
If you like epic fantasy, then I would recommend Robin Hobb or George R.R. Martin. |
The Road, by
Cormac McCarthy just won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel. I read McCarthy.
Haruki Murakami is one of my favorite authors. I read him AND collect First Editions by this writer.
Grotesque (that I mentioned earlier), is a literary novel that is also a mystery novel.
My tastes are actually somewhat eclectic: I can read literary noir and trashy noir; I can read absolute escapist, nonsense fiction (and love it), such as The Spider, Doc Savage, etc.; but I thoroughly enjoy literary novels the most - these are my main source of reading.
I upload all types of reading material in the Upload Section, but these are things I have read or they are by authors I'm already familiar with.
I purchased
Sputnik Sweetheart from Connect; it was one ofthe first titles I bought. I would like to see them DRAMATICALLY increase the number of novels by
Joyce Carol Oates. (I hope she one day soon will win the Nobel Prize in Literature, but after
Mario Vargas Llosa wins.)
I also read and have purchased 2 of
Robin Hobb's fantasy trilogies. These are great reads and I can recommend them to any lover of fantasy.
So, as you can see, I have eclectic and wide-ranging interests.
Don