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1. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
For an 800-page, translated novel in five sections, 2666 is an unbelievable pleasure to read. Tightly written, filled with insight and wonder, and with liquid prose as beautiful and terrifying as a dream, 2666 kept me occupied for many a sleepless night. Bolaño fictionalizes the real-life disappearances of hundreds of young women in a Mexican border town, populating his novel with a range of finely nuanced, deeply imagined characters, and capturing the totality of human experience in all its hideousness and beauty, intricacies and truth. In style, range of thought, and execution, 2666 is utterly visionary, and completely unforgettable.

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

3. To Siberia by Per Petterson

4. In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert Mak

5. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac

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When not writing, reading, hiking, or homebrewing beer, Jason Weeks dabbles in frontlist displays and works as the Night Supervisor at the Cedar Hills Crossing store.

Books mentioned in this post

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   2666: A Novel

   Roberto Bolano
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   The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

   Junot Diaz
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   To Siberia: A Novel

   Per Petterson
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   In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

   Geert Mak
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   And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

   William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac