Here’s a great list from The Guardian’s Robert McCrum, with an invitation to nominate your own favorites in the comment section.
How many have you read? As for me, I’ve started seven, but alas, have finished only two, and wouldn’t want to have to recite even on those now without a cram session.
How many of them are on Kindle? I’ll say “about six.”
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Umbrella by Will Self
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Alphabetical Africa (New Directions Books) by Walter Abish
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Ethics (Annotated) by Baruch Spinoza, John Fabian and R.H.M. Elwes
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The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
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Capital (Das Kapital) by Karl Marx
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Under the Volcano: A Novel by Malcolm Lowry and John Lee
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Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna (Audible Audio Edition -Jan 1, 2012) – Abridged
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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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The Unfortunates by B. S. Johnson