The Book Table

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Posted on September 16, 2010
Jason’s Top 20 Favorite Post-WWII Novels (with an emphasis on books published in the last 15 years) (this list reflects the moment and could change at any time) (and I reserve the right to make any other qualifier at any point that may make the list make more sense)

NUDE MEN by Amanda Filipacchi

INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace

GAIN by Richard Powers

ROOM by Emma Donoghue

KAFKA ON THE SHORE by Haruki Murakami

MY STRANGE QUEST FOR MENSONGE by Malcolm Bradbury

REMAINDER by Tom McCarthy

NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro

CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS by Marisha Pessl

EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer

GIANT’S HOUSE by Elizabeth McCracken

NIJMEGEN PROOF by S. Barkworth [Arthur Freeman]

CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT by William S. Burroughs

A GATE AT THE STAIRS by Lorrie Moore

FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco

(the final 4 may not be the greatest literature, but they mean a lot to me personally)

LONG RUN by Daniel Keyes Moran

LIMBO by Bernard Wolfe

SHOGUN by James Clavell

AGENTS OF CHAOS by Norman Spinrad

Posted on September 16, 2010 with 1 note

Jason’s Top 20 Favorite Post-WWII Novels (with an emphasis on books published in the last 15 years) (this list reflects the moment and could change at any time) (and I reserve the right to make any other qualifier at any point that may make the list make more sense)