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bcaie16



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Any readers out there? My personal favourite is The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.
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Every book in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge was a good one.
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Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
Moby-Dick- Hermann Melville
House of the Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner
The Bacchae- Euripides
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The Sound And The Fury is excellent!
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My favorites are:

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Korvic
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
Columbine by David Cullen
Zero by Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Ceremony by Leslie Silko

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.
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Brothers K is cool.

My favorite is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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I've been meaning to read Infinite Jest, I guess I will have to now once I am done with God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Just as a side note, since this is a music forum, do any of you listen to music while reading. Myself, I can't not, and I usually end up associating a certain artist with a certain book, to the point where I could not read any Dan Brown novel for example without listening to Californication.
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I haven't read fiction in years but that seems to be what this thread is interested in.

One of my favorite fiction titles is Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel The Fixer. It is about an unjustly imprisoned Jew in Tsarist Russia (inspired by the true story of Menahem Mendel Beilis). The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1967. The book was adapted into the movie The Fixer (1968) starring Alan Bates.
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Here's a fiction title music lovers, especially The Kinks fans, might like:
Ray Davies, X-Ray: An Unauthorized Autobiography (1994)
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