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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@seltzerbooks.com
Richard Powers (The
Goldbug
Variations , Gain )
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 )
Susan Minot (Evening )
Arthur Golden (Memoirs
of
a Geisha )
Don DeLillo (Underworld )
Gabriel Marquez (Hundred
Years
of Solitude )
Milan Kundera (Unbearable
Lightness
of Being )
A. S. Byatt (Possession )
Graham Swift (Waterland )
William Styron (Sophie's
Choice )
D.M. Thomas (The
White
Hotel )
Richard Adams (Watership
Down )
Louis de Bernieres (Corelli's
Mandolin )
Bernard Malamud (The
Natural )
Neal Stephenson (Snow
Crash , Cryptonomicon )
John Dufresne (Louisiana
Power
and Light )
Kazuo Ishiguro (The
Unconsoled )
David Foster Wallace (Infinite
Jest )
Francisco Goldman (The
Ordinary
Seaman , The
Long
Night of the White Chickens )
Oscar Hijuelos (The
Fourteen
Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien , Empress
of
the Splendid Season, Mambo
Kings
Sing Songs of Love )
Cormac McCarthy (All
the
Pretty Horses , The
Crossing , Cities
of
the Plain )
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