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  • The Manual of Detection - Jedediah Berry
  • The Half-Made World - Felix Gilman
  • Old Man's War (and sequals, if you like the first) - John Scalzi
  • Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
  • Ghostwritten - David Mitchel (and if you like that, basically everything else he's written besides Jacob de Zoot)
  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
  • The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  • A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  • The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac (way better than On The Road, which everyone * reads and usually gives up on)
  • Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (very tough. worth it.)
  • The Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
  • Stanley Lombardo's translations of Homer (Lombardo designed these translations * to be performed orally, rather than read, and as a result they're amazingly vibrant and exciting)
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