Recently, Oregon-based Powell’s, an indie bookstore, surveyed fellow word nerds to find out which titles populate their must-read bucket lists. Here are 11 of the top vote-getters.
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
- If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin.
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Maus by Art Spiegelman.
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Has
your book club read any of these? Are there some you’ve never even heard of?
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