Our Personal Canon of Great Books

Join our book club!   / lifeonbooks   Books Mentioned in this Episode: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon https://amzn.to/3W9sPNa https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781594... Europe Central by William Vollmann https://amzn.to/3JozJLo https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Poor People by William T. Vollmann https://amzn.to/48VcVgW https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060... Season of Migration to the North Tayeb Salih https://amzn.to/4o2Y8Fo https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590... Imperial by William T. Vollmann https://amzn.to/49t4SIi https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Rising up and Rising Down by William T. Vollmann https://amzn.to/3X2IfTD https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060... A Table for Fortune by William T. Vollmann https://amzn.to/437yAyJ https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781648... East of Eden by John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/4o9sCpm https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140... Love & Terror by William Herrick Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes https://amzn.to/4qz1VvV https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780142... 1984 by George Orwell https://amzn.to/435ZTcN https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780451... Brave New World by Aldous Huxley https://amzn.to/3WvPB1S https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060... The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie https://amzn.to/4ojr4JA https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812... Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/4nOZYJr https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812... JR by William Gaddis https://amzn.to/4nGsGfu https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681... The Recognitions by William Gaddis https://amzn.to/4oM265r https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681... The Tunnel by William H. Gass Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy https://amzn.to/48U4hiL https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679... Libra by Don DeLillo https://amzn.to/4qz4nT9 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140... In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesson https://amzn.to/47PhqbF https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140... The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesson https://amzn.to/3X1XFHE https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Shadow Country by Peter Matthiesson https://amzn.to/47PinRi https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780812... The Passion According to GH by Clarice Lispector https://amzn.to/47sGNPe https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811... The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector https://amzn.to/4qB90fw https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811... Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector https://amzn.to/47Pvt0T https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811... Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector https://amzn.to/3LdtjQ2 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811... The Forty Days of Musa Dagh https://amzn.to/3LAWGf3 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781567... The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/4nrgoY1 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312... 2666 by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/43Ldx57 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780312... By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano https://amzn.to/48OXGpI https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250... Billy Budd by Herman Melville https://amzn.to/3Jyrmgp https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Catch-22 by Joseph Heller https://amzn.to/3LfAMy3 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781451... Something Happened by Joseph Heller https://amzn.to/3Jvufyw https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684... The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace https://amzn.to/47NEmIh https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... Shogun by James Clavell https://amzn.to/3L80FzQ https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9798212... The Instructions by Adam Levin https://amzn.to/4hB7Rk5 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781952... Memoirs from Beyond the Grave 1815-1830 by Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand https://amzn.to/47vC3Z3 https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781681... Baronwenckheim’s Homecoming by Laszlo Kraznahorkai https://amzn.to/4397dnY Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry https://amzn.to/49dhWBJ https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780061... Underworld by Don DeLillo https://amzn.to/47hQ3qH https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780684... Ask the Dust by John Fante https://amzn.to/3X3ccTz https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060... The Death of Virgil by Herman Broch https://amzn.to/4ogfmiT https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679... The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili https://amzn.to/3LnP93f https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781950... The Public Burning by Robert Coover https://amzn.to/4nrpX9n https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802... The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu https://amzn.to/43zoJBS https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143... The USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos https://amzn.to/3JwNibJ https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780063... The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann https://amzn.to/4hx3ypI https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780141... Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes https://amzn.to/3JzA2Dk