Best Books

 

2020

TOP 25 BOOKS FOR 2020 OUT OF 111 BOOKS READ

1. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

3. McTeague: a Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

4. Rabbit Redux by John Updike

5. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

6. The Master and Margarita by MIkhail Bulgakov

7. Brown Dog by Jim Harrison

8. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

9. Cathedral by Raymond Carver

10. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

11. The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

12. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

13. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

14. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

15. American Pastoral by Philip Roth

16. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac

17. Poor White by Sherwood Anderson

18. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

19. The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

20. Everyman by Philip Roth

21. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

22. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

23. Mysteries by Knut Hamsun

24. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

25. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

2021

My Top 10 were: 

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 

2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 

3. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, 

4. Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, 

5. Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout, 

6. And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokov, 

7. The Fixer by Bernard Malamud, 

8. Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, 

9. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, 

10. Candide by Voltaire.

2022

1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

3. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

4. Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

5. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

6. Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

7. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

8. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

9. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

10. Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

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