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
From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one's shoes, Baker at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry.
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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
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925 that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England.
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Saul Bellow 1956
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · all in one day, one night or one summer
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In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: He is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his…
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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
Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon, stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane—ablaze with fire like a meteor—arcing across the London sky.
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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
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
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 · all in one day, one night or 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.