The Savage Detectives. Roberto Bolano
Camino island. Grisham
Hillbilly elegy. Vance.
Have you read 2666? Easily one of my favorite books ever.
thanks for the recommend. It’s definitely on my list. The list I’m working off has Savage ranked slightly above 2666, I was surprised. A 3rd of his “Distant Star” (I think) is also ranked. I just started Savage and will be working my way through.
Thanks!!!
You’ve got my curiosity peaked now. What kind of list are you working off of?
The Savage Detectives. Roberto Bolano
Camino island. Grisham
Hillbilly elegy. Vance.
Have you read 2666? Easily one of my favorite books ever.
thanks for the recommend. It’s definitely on my list. The list I’m working off has Savage ranked slightly above 2666, I was surprised. A 3rd of his “Distant Star” (I think) is also ranked. I just started Savage and will be working my way through.
Thanks!!!
You’ve got my curiosity peaked now. What kind of list are you working off of?
The Greatest Books of All Time
I recommend looking at the “authors” tab on top and the “genre” tab on right. choose show all genres and sort by book count. If you have a particular area of interest this is great
The greatest books written by Roberto Bolaño
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i have not warmed to Roberto Bolano. i’m partway through the Savage Detectives, not resonating with me yet. 2666 is on my radar. we’ll see on him. something, literally, may be lost in translation for me.
what i have read that i have enjoyed the past 6 months are, with the just outstanding stuff in red:
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
Crook Manifesto and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (yes, sister of triathlete Sarah True nee Groff)
The Secret Hours, latest Slough House by Mick Herron
Thursday Murder Club (and the others in the series) by Richard Osman
Love and Other Wounds, and Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
In the Woods (and The Hunter and The Searcher) by Tana French
Camino Ghost (just okay) by John Grisham
Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius
Farewell, Amethystine and Blood Grove, latest Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Argyle by Elly Conway
City on Fire, City in Ruins, City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
what i have on tap are:
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (in progress)
The Warmth of Other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
10:04 by Ben Lerner
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
i have not warmed to Roberto Bolano. i’m partway through the Savage Detectives, not resonating with me yet. 2666 is on my radar. we’ll see on him. something, literally, may be lost in translation for me.
what i have read that i have enjoyed the past 6 months are, with the just outstanding stuff in red:
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
Crook Manifesto and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (yes, sister of triathlete Sarah True nee Groff)
The Secret Hours, latest Slough House by Mick Herron
Thursday Murder Club (and the others in the series) by Richard Osman
Love and Other Wounds, and Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
In the Woods (and The Hunter and The Searcher) by Tana French
Camino Ghost (just okay) by John Grisham
Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius
Farewell, Amethystine and Blood Grove, latest Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Argyle by Elly Conway
City on Fire, City in Ruins, City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
what i have on tap are:
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (in progress)
The Warmth of Other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
10:04 by Ben Lerner
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
good stuff thanks. Everything in blue I have read in the last <3 years.
you won’t be disappointed with anything in blue on tap.
I’m at Casino Island now. The other 2 still to go. that and then Sooley will get me fully read up on Grisham.
i have not warmed to Roberto Bolano. i’m partway through the Savage Detectives, not resonating with me yet. 2666 is on my radar. we’ll see on him. something, literally, may be lost in translation for me.
what i have read that i have enjoyed the past 6 months are, with the just outstanding stuff in red:
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
Crook Manifesto and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (yes, sister of triathlete Sarah True nee Groff)
The Secret Hours, latest Slough House by Mick Herron
Thursday Murder Club (and the others in the series) by Richard Osman
Love and Other Wounds, and Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
In the Woods (and The Hunter and The Searcher) by Tana French
Camino Ghosts (just okay) by John Grisham
Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius
Farewell, Amethystine and Blood Grove, latest Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Argyle by Elly Conway
City on Fire, City in Ruins, City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
what i have on tap are:
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (in progress)
The Warmth of Other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
10:04 by Ben Lerner
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
good stuff thanks. Everything in blue I have read in the last <3 years.
you won’t be disappointed with anything in blue on tap.
I’m at Casino Island now. The other 2 still to go. that and then Sooley will get me fully read up on Grisham.
you are a reader, sir. camino island. haven’t read it that i remember. the new one is camino ghosts. i appreciate your interest in colson whitehead. the absolute 2 best authors i’ve come across in the past year are robin sloan and jordan harper. when i read “everybody knows” by harper it was the same sensation i had when i read the first mick herron book, back when slough horses was the only book published of what would become that series. just astoundingly good.
but i tend to read fiction, and specifically genre fiction. espionage. crime. stuff like that. so, i’m looking for best-of-class wordsmithing in genre fiction which is not that easy to find. i also read westerns. every now and then i come across just a top class novel that happens to be a western. like true grit. or cormac mccarthy, or larry mcmurtry. the most recent - a few years ago - was the sisters brothers.
you, on the other hand, obviously just like good fiction. so, as you can see with my on-deck list, i’m giving up some of my genre fiction just to catch up on a lot of good fiction (which you’ve already read).
i have not warmed to Roberto Bolano. i’m partway through the Savage Detectives, not resonating with me yet. 2666 is on my radar. we’ll see on him. something, literally, may be lost in translation for me.
what i have read that i have enjoyed the past 6 months are, with the just outstanding stuff in red:
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
Crook Manifesto and Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Sourdough and Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff (yes, sister of triathlete Sarah True nee Groff)
The Secret Hours, latest Slough House by Mick Herron
Thursday Murder Club (and the others in the series) by Richard Osman
Love and Other Wounds, and Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
In the Woods (and The Hunter and The Searcher) by Tana French
Camino Ghosts (just okay) by John Grisham
Phantom Orbit by David Ignatius
Farewell, Amethystine and Blood Grove, latest Easy Rawlins by Walter Mosley
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
Argyle by Elly Conway
City on Fire, City in Ruins, City of Dreams by Don Winslow
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
what i have on tap are:
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka (in progress)
The Warmth of Other suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
10:04 by Ben Lerner
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
good stuff thanks. Everything in blue I have read in the last <3 years.
you won’t be disappointed with anything in blue on tap.
I’m at Casino Island now. The other 2 still to go. that and then Sooley will get me fully read up on Grisham.
you are a reader, sir. camino island. haven’t read it that i remember. the new one is camino ghosts. i appreciate your interest in colson whitehead. the absolute 2 best authors i’ve come across in the past year are robin sloan and jordan harper. when i read “everybody knows” by harper it was the same sensation i had when i read the first mick herron book, back when slough horses was the only book published of what would become that series. just astoundingly good.
but i tend to read fiction, and specifically genre fiction. espionage. crime. stuff like that. so, i’m looking for best-of-class wordsmithing in genre fiction which is not that easy to find. i also read westerns. every now and then i come across just a top class novel that happens to be a western. like true grit. or cormac mccarthy, or larry mcmurtry. the most recent - a few years ago - was the sisters brothers.
you, on the other hand, obviously just like good fiction. so, as you can see with my on-deck list, i’m giving up some of my genre fiction just to catch up on a lot of good fiction (which you’ve already read).
I highly recommend the link I shared with Jim R.
Really allows you to find “related authors†based on genre.
My obsessive/compulsive/ironman personality uses it to find an author I like (like whitehead) and then read any all of their stuff
I’m trying to get into some of the more classic authors by alternating with a suspense/thriller author followed by a Fitzgerald or a Joyce.
I’m an old guy relegated to the trainer and pool mostly. So it helps to pass trainer time along with obsessing about trying to complete every route on Zwift.
Thanks. Peace !!
Ps. There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
The greatest books written by Roberto Bolaño
*Slaughterhouse Five *should be higher, or leave it there and put Cat’s Cradle ahead of it someplace
As much as I’ve read about Kilgore Trout, I need to investigate the works of Theodore Sturgeon; in much the same way that people who like The Rolling Stones should listen to Muddy Waters, or people who like Banksy should look at Warhol Jasper Johns or Lichtenstein … or Sheppard Fairey (who I think is a FAR better artist) — or go WAY BACK to Cornbread, MrBlint, KAZZ, etc.
“If you like THAT, look at THIS!!!”
The greatest books written by Roberto Bolaño
*Slaughterhouse Five *should be higher, or leave it there and put Cat’s Cradle ahead of it someplace
As much as I’ve read about Kilgore Trout, I need to investigate the works of Theodore Sturgeon; in much the same way that people who like The Rolling Stones should listen to Muddy Waters, or people who like Banksy should look at Warhol Jasper Johns or Lichtenstein … or Sheppard Fairey (who I think is a FAR better artist) — or go WAY BACK to Cornbread, MrBlint, KAZZ, etc.
“If you like THAT, look at THIS!!!”
The top ones move around pretty regularly as they add more rankings. If you log in you can rank and “users†rankings are weighted a little more.
It’s weighted more toward current stuff because there are more “best of lists†that way.
Pretty current and pretty extensive tho. When I first hooked in it had about 2400 fictions. It now has 7400.
i thought year of the locust wass just shocking - to the point i thought it was so terrible i was struggling to finish it
in terms of plot segues that was right up there
Mick Herron is superb
I have started reading more oliver Norek - thriller, french, good
Currently in southern man - greg isles - after this week its a wild read
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There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
edgar rice burroughs wrote westerns, but wrote a lot more science fiction than westerns. those were the pulp days. so much for writing what you know. i’ve read a lot of elmore leonard’s pulp westerns from the early 50s.
I guess it’s time to read Hillbilly Elegy
I hate that his book sales are probably skyrocketing.
Passage du Desir, Johnny Blue Skies & Sturgill Simpson
I’m sure you’ve listened by now. Interesting record, you never know which direction he’s headed.
Vinyl copy arriving soon. Loving it.
There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
good stuff thanks
There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
edgar rice burroughs wrote westerns, but wrote a lot more science fiction than westerns.
Yeah, that’s what shocked me when I learned what Rocky was reading - I knew it was a western, but I figured it was Zane Grey or some such
NOT the guy who wrote The Lost World or The land That Time Forgot
There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
edgar rice burroughs wrote westerns, but wrote a lot more science fiction than westerns.
Yeah, that’s what shocked me when I learned what Rocky was reading - I knew it was a western, but I figured it was Zane Grey or some such
NOT the guy who wrote The Lost World or The land That Time Forgot
to both your points lots of diverse stuff. Those are my favorite authors to go through their catalouge vs. a “series” person (Harry Potter) or a genre guy (Grisham).
There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
edgar rice burroughs wrote westerns, but wrote a lot more science fiction than westerns.
Yeah, that’s what shocked me when I learned what Rocky was reading - I knew it was a western, but I figured it was Zane Grey or some such
NOT the guy who wrote The Lost World or The land That Time Forgot
i read both of those last year. the lost world was arthur conan doyle. terrific book from someone not known for that.
That’s right, sorry
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There’s a western “genreâ€. Introduced me to AB Guthrie.
Rocky reads a western titled The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan, John Carter of Mars) to Adrian while she is in a coma in Rocky II
edgar rice burroughs wrote westerns, but wrote a lot more science fiction than westerns.
Yeah, that’s what shocked me when I learned what Rocky was reading - I knew it was a western, but I figured it was Zane Grey or some such
NOT the guy who wrote The Lost World or The land That Time Forgot
i read both of those last year. the lost world was arthur conan doyle. terrific book from someone not known for that.
I went through Doyle last year. I was shocked how good Lost World was and how I had never heard of anything but Holmes. Frankly there was only one Holmes book I liked more (can’t remember which but it was pretty obscure as well).