BEST OF THE BEST -- TOP FAVORITE NOVELS
Several people have requested I make a selection of the "best of the best"
-- the top contemporary novels that I would recommend (in no particular
order).
Richard Seltzer seltzer@samizdat.com
For reviews of some of these books, see www.samizdat.com/isyn/reviews.html
For brief notes on others, see www.samizdat.com/readrev.html
For more on books and reading, see www.samizdat.com/readers.html
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John Irving (The
World According to Garp,
A
Widow for One Year,
Cider
House Rules)
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Richard Powers (The
Goldbug Variations,
Gain)
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J. K. Rowling (Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ,
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ,
Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
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Susan Minot (Evening)
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Arthur Golden (Memoirs
of a Geisha )
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Don DeLillo (Underworld)
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Gabriel Marquez (Hundred
Years of Solitude)
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Milan Kundera (Unbearable
Lightness of Being)
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A. S. Byatt (Possession)
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Graham Swift (Waterland)
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William Styron (Sophie's
Choice)
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D.M. Thomas (The
White Hotel)
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Richard Adams (Watership
Down)
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Louis de Bernieres (Corelli's
Mandolin)
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Bernard Malamud (The
Natural)
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Neal Stephenson (Snow
Crash,
Cryptonomicon)
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John Dufresne (Louisiana
Power and Light)
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Kazuo Ishiguro (The
Unconsoled)
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David Foster Wallace (Infinite
Jest)
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Francisco Goldman (The
Ordinary Seaman,
The
Long Night of the White Chickens)
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Oscar Hijuelos (The
Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien,
Empress
of the Splendid SeasonMambo
Kings Sing Songs of Love)
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Cormac McCarthy (All
the Pretty Horses,
The
Crossing,
Cities
of the Plain)
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by Richard Seltzer
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