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    Cover of Herzog

    Herzog

    Saul Bellow · 1961

    In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the complexity of existence and longing for redemption. Introduction by Philip Roth

    Fiction & Literature
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    2people
    2008–2016years
    100% recommend

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    What Hacker News says

    1. gPphXJan 2016
      by author:

      Beano (comic, ’50s)

      Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)

      Raw (comic, ’80s)

      Viz (comic, early ’80s)

      Paris Review, The - Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley

      Ackroyd, Peter - Hawksmoor

      Alighieri, Dante - Inferno

      Amis, Martin - Money

      Baldwin, James - Fire Next Time, The

      Barnes, Julian - Flaubert’s Parrot

      Bellow, Saul - Herzog

      Braine, John - Room At The Top

      Broyard, Anatole - Kafka Was The Rage

      Bulgakov, Mikhail - Master And Margarita, The

      Bulwer-Lytton, Edward - Zanoni

      Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange

      Burgess, Anthony - Earthly Powers

      Cage, John - Silence: Lectures And Writing

      Camus, Albert - Stranger, The

      Capote, Truman - In Cold Blood

      Carter, Angela - Nights At The Circus

      Chabon, Michael - Wonder Boys

      Chatwin, Bruce - Songlines, The

      Cohn, Nik - Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock

      Cork, Richard - David Bomberg

      Crane, Hart - Bridge, The

      Danto, Arthur C. - Beyond The Brillo Box

      DeLillo, Don - White Noise

      Diaz, Junot - Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, The

      Döblin, Alfred - Berlin Alexanderplatz

      Dos Passos, John - 42nd Parallel, The

      Edwards, Frank - Strange People

      Elliot, T.S. - Waste Land, The

      Faulkner, William - As I Lay Dying

      Figes, Orlando - A People’s Tragedy

      Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Great Gatsby, The

      Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary

      Friedrich, Otto - Before The Deluge

      Gillete, Charlie - Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll, The

      Ginzburg, Eugenia - Journey Into The Whirlwind

      Guralnick, Peter - Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom

      Hall, James A. - Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art

      Harding, Douglass - On Having No Head

      Hirshey, Gerri - Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music

      Hitchens, Christopher - Trial Of Henry Kissinger, The

      Homer - Iliad

      Isherwood, Christopher - Mr. Norris Changes Trains

      Jacoby, Susan - Age Of American Unreason, The

      Jaynes, Julian - Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, The

      Kerouac, Jack - On The Road

      Kidd, David - All The Emperor’s Horses

      Koestler, Arthur - Darkness At Noon

      Laing, R. D. - Divided Self, The

      Di Lampedusa, Giusseppe - Leopard, The

      Larson, Nella - Passing

      Lautréamont, Comte de - Maldodor

      Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterly’s Lover

      Lebowitz, Fran - Metropolitan Life

      Lévi, Eliphas - Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual

      Lewis, Wyndham - Blast

      Marcus, Greil - Mystery Train

      McEwan, Ian - In Between The Sheets

      Milligan, Spike - Puckoon

      Mishima, Yukio - Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The

      Mitford, Jessica - American Way Of Death, The

      Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita

      Norman, Howard - Bird Artist, The

      Norris, Frank - McTeague

      O’Hara, Frank - Selected Poems

      Orwell, George - 1984

      Orwell, George - Inside The Whale And Other Essays

      Packard, Vance - Hidden Persuaders, The

      Pagels, Elaine - Gnostic Gospels, The

      Paglia, Camille - Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson

      Petry, Ann - Street, The

      di Pirajno, Alberto Denti - A Grave For A Dolphin

      Priestley, J.B. - English Journey

      Rechy, John - City Of Night

      Sadecky, Peter - Octobriana And The Russian Underground

      Saunders, Ed - Tales Of Beatnik Glory

      Savage, Jon - Teenage

      Selby, Hubert Jr. - Last Exit To Brooklyn

      Spark, Muriel - Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, The

      Steiner, George - In Bluebeard’s Castle

      Stoppard, Tom - Coast Of Utopia, The

      Sylvester, David - Interviews With Francis Bacon

      Thomson, Rupert - Insult, The

      Thurman, Wallace - Infants Of The Spring

      Toole, John Kennedy - A Confederacy Of Dunces

      Waterhouse, Keith - Billy Liar

      Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith

      Waugh, Evelyn - Vile Bodies

      Weschler, Lawrence - Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders

      West, Nathanael - Day Of The Locust, The

      White, Charles - Life And Times Of Little Richard, The

      Wilson, Colin - Outsider, The

      Wolf, Christa - Quest For Christa T, The

      Wright, Richard - Black Boy

      Yokoo, Tadanori - Tadanori Yokoo

      Zinn, Howard - A People’s History Of The United States

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    2. garnerwoodsDec 2008
      Usually I will find out what book famous people has read, what are their favorite books, hope that any book which bring influence on them, will bring good influence on me too.. also, as famous n successful people combined with their experience, I'm sure they have better taste on their choice too.

      Stephen King's Favorite: This Book Will Save Your Life by A. M. Homes Saturday by Ian McEwan The Mad Cook of Pymatuning: A Novel by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel by Stef Penney When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

      J.K. Rowling's Favorite: The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Skellig by David Almond The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle

      Jeffrey Eugenides, author, Pulitzer prize winner "Herzog," by Saul Bellow "Love in a Fallen City," by Eileen Chang "The Lay of the Land," by Richard Ford

      Oprah Winfrey's Favorite: White Oleander by Janet Fitch The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

      For complete list visit http://www.famouspal.com

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