50 Novels All Men Should Have Read — 50 книг

On form, no living English writer is as funny or wise as Zadie Smith. Her third novel, about two warring families of academics, is an absolute joy.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 19:59

A critique of the social media age so prescient and harrowing it should be on school syllabuses, never mind your book shelf.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:00

You read Grapes Of Wrath years ago. Now try Steinbeck’s more difficult ‘other novel’ that spans generations of American history and includes some of his greatest characters.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:05

One of the great stylists of modern literature creates a vision of the future – and a father / son relationship – you’ll find it difficult to forget.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:08

Atwood spans the twentieth century in America in a smartly plotted book full of dark humour.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:09

The greatest of Great American Novels is one of those books that is about everything – including communal masturbation and advanced whaling techniques.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:10

Everything the Tom Hanks film wasn’t: unsentimental, hilarious and ironic. The storyline of the novel was also even more ambitious – in it, simple genius Forrest goes into space and plays chess with cannibals.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:11

Few modern novels can match the scale and ambition of the Colombian master’s greatest work. A lot to take in, but worth sticking with.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:12

A remarkable debut novel about loss and being lost, set vividly on the Eastern coast of Australia.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:14

The wittiest Irishman ever to live only wrote one novel. Thankfully, it’s a corker.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:15

Lost sports journalist Frank Bascombe is up there with John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom as one of the great everymen of American fiction.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:16

The nature of guilt, the legacy of racism and what happens to our sex drive when we become old men is just some of the issues confronted in Coetzee’s greatest novel.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:18

This remarkable novel about an unremarkable man and his unremarkable life has enjoyed a richly-deserved reappraisal by critics in recent years.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:22

This story about a middle-aged man embarking on a walking tour of Germany – and reflecting on his decidedly average life on the way – is a minor modern classic.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:25

The subject matter – a sexual relationship between a 38-year-old professor and his 12-year-old stepdaughter – means this 1955 novel is still one of the most controversial novels of all time. It’s also one of the best written.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:26

Fantastically well observed – and extremely funny – tale of family dynamics and our longing for success.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:27

Fantastically well observed – and extremely funny – tale of family dynamics and our longing for success.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:28

A surreal sort of magic leaps off every page of this novel, from Japan’s most famous – and admired – living writer.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:30

McEwan, writing at the peak of his powers, explores notions of truth, memory and culpability. The opening section in particular has to be some of the most well observed fiction writing in modern literature.

Nikitasagan77 10 апреля 2015 г., 20:31