Here are my initial thoughts on my own list (I may have to add to this as I go on):
- Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy
- Friedrich Durrenmatt - The Physicians and The Visit
- Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
- Richard Powers - The Gold Bug Variations
- China Mieville - Perdido Street Station
- Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
And a few alternates or "extra credit" options:
- John Fowles - The Magus
- Joyce Carol Oates - Bellefleur
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black
- Diana Wynne Jones - A Sudden, Wild Magic
- Iris Murdoch - The Black Prince
- Edward P. Jones - All Aunt Hagar's Children
- Nadine Gordimer - Burger's Children
- Tim Winton - Cloudstreet or Dirt Music
- Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda or True History of the Kelly Gang
- Cynthia Ozick - The Puttermesser Papers
- Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
- Elizabeth Bowen - A World of Love
- Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
- Swimming Lessons -Rohinton Mistry
- Sandor Marai - Embers
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As I look over everyone's list I'm surprised at the vast number of books and/or authors I haven't read. I need more time set aside for reading. (Maybe less time blogging would help?!)
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