Any book worms out there? Recently finished Brothers Karamazov, The Pearl, and Dorian Gray, and was going to read War & Peace and David Copperfield next. What are your favorite books? Any opinions on the above? I’m a literature snob.

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Anything by Cormack McCarthy. No Country for Old Men or Blood Meridian to start.

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If you like Russian based ( Brother) than read A Gentleman in Moscow. If you like romance comedy than don’t miss the Rosy Project.
1984, Animal Farm, Catcher in rye, The Count of Monte Cristo are super reads.

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Based on some of what you've read, you may like some Kafka

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The Undoing Project, Spinning Silver, Thirteen, Pachinko, Bad Blood, Flowers for Alganorn. Seems like you have a lot of classic literature as a preference so here’s some more modern ones I really like.

Anna Karenina is my favorite classic though.

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I highly recommend flowers for Algeron

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Dorian Gray is incredible and so is David Copperfield, but in a different way. Definitely go DC next

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Gravity’s rainbow.

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I am currently reading The Warmth of Other Suns, about the Great Migration. Interesting history and is very highly rated.

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Excellent read! 10/10

Grapes of Wrath and A Farewell to Arms are pretty good.

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Fiction or non fiction ?

Either. I read more fiction than anything but I love me some Bill Bryson and Malcolm Gladwell

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Anna Karenina, Les Miserables, Count of Monte Cristo

Based on the books you’ve already read, I’d recommend: Les Miserables - like someone else already recommended, Doctor Shivago, Eugene Onegin (Pushkin really is a grand master!), perhaps something from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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