grindy

A friend asked me today to recommend him ten books I think are required reading. (I only included fiction, so essential stuff like "The Myth of Sisyphus" or "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" got omitted.)

My list would be:

Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi
Gustav Meyrink: The Golem
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones
Lautreamont: Les Chants de Maldoror
Stanislav Lem: Solaris
Strugatsky Brothers: The Doomed City
Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
Voltaire: Candide
William S. Burroughs: Naked Lunch

What's yours?

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