List of good books that are likely not (at least not yet) Great Books
2 min readMar 17
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- A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
- Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
- The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Collapse by Jared Diamond
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
- The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
- Chaos by James Gleick
- The Social Animal by David Brooks
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
