3.42 avg rating — 3,930 ratings

"A novel about young people, summer, and being in love, written in 1923."

4.33 avg rating — 37,270 ratings

"A gorgeous graphic novel set in Brazil that explores time, mortality, and different ways of finding meaning in life."

4.13 avg rating — 54,554 ratings

"Funny, digressive, long, insightful essays that are full of creative and interesting ways to use words, sentences, tropes and the maxed-out use of footnotes as a literary device.* They are also a good introduction to DFW without having to commit to “Infinite Jest” right out of the gate, which would be a little like asking a baby to transition directly from formula to chimichangas. “Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All” and a “A Supposedly Fun Think I’ll Never Do Again” might be good essays to start with.

*Some of the footnotes even have their own footnotes.**

**Seriously. "

4.46 avg rating — 15,578 ratings

"A huge, powerful, wrenching, finally grandly humane survey in the tradition of Tolstoy, centering on the Battle of Stalingrad, but with episodes in the gulag, German death camps, interrogations in the Lubyanka, love and death"

4.28 avg rating — 3,711 ratings

"A tour de force of geographical, historical, cultural, ethnic, and travel lore, this book is part of a trilogy recalling (in 1971) the author's walking tour from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1939, when he was nineteen."

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