The 7 books on this stack
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Nicholson Baker 1988
Why it's on the stack
Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
"A seriously funny book."--Salman Rushdie "It pulverized me."--Hernan Diaz An elegant new edition of Nicholson Baker's stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive…
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Virginia Woolf 1925
Why it's on the stack
It stays with you · comforting, like coming home
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Virginia Woolf’s novel chronicles a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a politician’s wife in 1920s London, as she prepares to host a party that evening.
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Saul Bellow 1956
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · one day, one summer
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“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail.
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Ian McEwan 2004
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · you end up rooting for the wrong people
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • ”Dazzling [and] powerful.” —The New York Times • From Booker Prize–winning and bestselling author of Atonement—Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel Saturday follows an ordinary…
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James Joyce 1914
Why it's on the stack
It stays with you · full of big ideas
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A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home.
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Don DeLillo 2003
Why it's on the stack
Funny, and it bites · properly strange
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Eric Packer, a young billionaire asset manager, journeys across New York in his limousine despite a threat against his life, and the occurances of various events that are stalling traffic throughout…
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Malcolm Lowry 1947
Why it's on the stack
It stays with you · one day, one summer
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Under the Volcano was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.