10 Books That Are Meant to Be Savored. As Francis Bacon famously wrote, “Some books are meant to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; That is, some books are to be read only in parts; Others to be read, but not curiously; And some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” As voracious readers, we like to think we give each book we read its due diligence, but you can’t deny that some are worth lingering over, worth turning over in your mind, worth cherishing, longer than others. Of course, such a thing is only objective to a certain extent — everyone has their own favorites, and everyone’s own favorites are, for them, just as important as anyone else’s. Here, we present a list of ten books we think are worth savoring, poring over, and thinking about for years — add to it with your own choices in the comments.
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Lo lee ta. 11 Meta-Novels That Will Blow Your Mind. As you might have noticed, we love us some meta literature here at Flavorwire. So when we heard about Ariel S. Winter’s The Twenty-Year Death, a novel in three novels, each in the style of a different mystery writer, which hits bookstores next week, we asked the author to give us a rundown on some of his favorite works of meta-fiction. “When it comes to novels,” he writes, “I’ve always been as excited by form as by story. Narrators within narrators, footnotes, colored ink, unique page layout, frame narratives, genre-bending, blank pages, photographs; these all pique my interest. However, I’ve had to learn that when I discuss my own novel The Twenty-Year Death, I need to lead with story rather than form or my interlocutor loses interest.
Perhaps that’s because playing with form can be so hard to do right. If story is sacrificed for form, a novel’s no fun to read. Top Authors List - Best Authors to Read. Exclusive Infographic: The Greatest Books of All Time. Top Books for Men - Books for Men to Read. 100 must read books.pdf (application/pdf Object) Unfilmable Books: 15 Great Books Never Coming To A Theater Near You (PHOTOS) Best First Lines of Novels. 10 Quintessentially American Novels. In case you missed all the cookouts and night-time explosions, yesterday was the fourth of July, and we hope you all spent it wearing red, white, and blue and eating hot dogs on a grassy lawn. We also hope you’re not too sick of American pride, however, because in honor of our country’s birthday, we’ve compiled a list of books that we think are quintessentially American to add to your reading list. Each of these books is wonderfully representative of some slice of the American experience, though of course no country can be the same for all people at all times.
Click through to check out our ultra-patriotic reading list, and since a list of ten novels doesn’t even begin to cover it, let us know which books you’d add in the comments. East of Eden, John Steinbeck Steinbeck’s magnum opus relates the struggles, successes and evolution of a family in California’s Salinas Valley between the start of the 20th century and the end of WWI. Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once (5814 books) Best Books of the 20th Century (4185 books) The Most Begun "Read but Unfinished" (Initiated) book ever (1033 books)
14 daunting books every man must read - Entertainment. Page count: 832 What it’s about: Nick Shay is a waste-management executive with a sinister past and a wife who’s having an affair. The novel spans his life, wider historical events and the lives of the famous, using a baseball as the constant link between people and time. A 2006 survey of authors and critics by The New York Times voted it runner-up for best American novel of the previous 25 years (Toni Morrison’s Beloved came first). Why read it: “He’s good about the modern world in a way that nobody else is,” says Matt Thorne, author, screenwriter and book reviewer. “It’s incredibly stylish prose, far better than The Corrections [by Jonathan Franzen], and I’d say that, along with Infinite Jest, it’s one of only two modern books that has any claim to being the Great American Novel.” First line: He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful. Books that will induce a mindfuck.
Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction. The 50 Coolest Books Ever - Entertainment.