I’m always looking out for great literary novels, but I find the accepted lists of ‘best novels ever’ quite boring. Not to say that the likes of Ulysses, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Don Quixote, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, etc etc aren’t great novels, but they are repeated time and again in great novels lists. Can anyone suggest great novels which don’t typically appear on great novels lists?
I’d offer the following for starters:
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas,
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth,
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer,
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun,
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
by MainPapaya
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These aren’t particularly obscure, but I don’t see them make these lists (at least the more mainstream ones) and they’re deserving:
– *The Passion According to GH*, Clarice Lispector
– *The Tunnel*, William Gass
– *A Month in the Country*, JL Carr
– *The Obscene Bird of Night*, Jose Donoso
– *The Recognitions*, William Gaddis