What should I read next ?

[Thomas]

Good evening all,
I'd like some recommendations. I'm just looking for a few nice books, no specific style, maybe some classics.
Thank you already,
T.

[Laura]

It depends the type of books. I peeked into your profile to see what you already read and compare books (mostly to see if you'd like the same books I would).

If you're up for more Latin American "classic", you can dive into Mario Vargas Llosa or Jorge Amado. I'm not a big fan of Isabel Allende, but some people love her work. I love Borges and Cortázar.

For fun and light Victorian, please do try everything Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes. I love them dearly. For more serious Victorian, my favorite would be , as long as I have hard liquor around or my partner's shoulder.

Go goth and rock Edgar Allan Poe, I drank it all as a teen (translated) and now I can't wait to improve my English enough to read it all again, original version.

Other favorites I have:


I'm currently reading and I'm loving it. It has me startling when a cricket sounds in the bushes, but I'm totally digging it.

Hope that helps!

[Florin]

Depends what you like. Your fantasy-heavy read shelf is screaming out for some Tolkien, so I'd recommend 'The Hobbit'. If you're also into sci-fi, check out Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'? the book behind 'Blade Runner'.

If you're interested in other South American authors, I would second Jorge Amado, who is quite popular in Brazil, but largely unknown in the English-speaking world. 'The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray' is delightful.

Marquez himself was highly appreciative of Hemingway. The best work of his I've read is 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. It is about an American solider fighting in the Spanish Civil War, and also about love and death.

Camus, Kafka are excellent but were already mentioned, and to those I would add Hesse, also in the existentialist style. If you are at all interested in American writers, my favourites are Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath), Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby), Salinger (Franny and Zooey).

[Fifith]

I don't know if you already read these but Head Count by Ingrid Noll, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll and Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai are the books that I enjoy the most after reading One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[Juan]

well if you like One Hundred Years in Solitude, you will definitely enjoy The Death Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes.