My single favourite book is Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Honourable mentions to:
- Catch-22 - Heller
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Vonnegut
- To the Lighthouse - Woolf
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
- The Windup Bird Chronicle - Murakami
- Pride and Prejudice - Austin
- Burr - Vidal
- Brave New World - Huxley
- The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
- Hitchhikercs Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Currently reading, and enjoying, Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 🙂
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