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Favorite novels

Instinctual subjective list:

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Emma by Jane Austen

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

The Hobbit by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway

Franny & Zooey by Jerome David Salinger

One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Parable of Talents by Octavia Butler

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński

Mobius Book by Catherine Lacey

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