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THAT'S MY CUCK
 
-the stranger, Camus
-demian, Hesse
-darkness at noon*, Koestler

* while a work of fiction, it is rooted in truth/experience. Koestler is the guy the Hemmingway wished he was. I recommend scum of the earth/the invisible writing/arrow in the blue <---- autobiographical works by Koestler.
 
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Grapes of Wrath
The Jungle
Catcher in the Rye
The Twenty One Balloons
The Westing Game
The Pearl
 
Went back and read To Kill a Mockingbird not long ago and really enjoyed the re-read. Not a novel, but great story, Boys in the Boat is my favorite book from the last few years. Recently, Do No Harm was very good and I'm currently reading McCullogh's most recent book The Pioneers.
 
"All the Light We Cannot See"

Mentioned it a number of times, but that's only because I generally stick to non-fiction. So my novel recs are slim.
 
I've heard old, stuffy English teachers of the past refer to Gatsby as the great American literary masterpiece. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Gatsby. But to me, it has always been Mockingbird. Just wonderful storytelling. So thankful for Harper Lee's and Truman Capote's friendship because after reading that god-awful Go Set a Watchmen, I'm fairly convinced that Truman Capote heavily influenced the plot development of Mockingbird.

The Stranger is about as Nihilistic as it gets. Many of you would probably enjoy. And by "many" I mean UCL.

Vonnegut is an interesting author to go back and re-read. It's no real secret that he leaned toward socialism, but it's been recently suggested that he may have been more of a communist than anything. So when he wrote the short story, "Harrison Bergeron," he wrote it as a satire of how a NON-communist would satirize a communist dystopia. Crazy.
 
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