general categories: classic literature, literary fiction, magic realism, poetry.

• VIRGINIA WOOLF
• VLADIMIR NABOKOV (esp pale fire)
• everything is illuminated by jsf
• midnight's children by salman rushdie
• ulysses by james joyce
• war and peace by tolstoy
• CHARLES DICKENS
• THOMAS HARDY
• war of the worlds + the invisible man by hg wells
• the plague by albert camus
• age of reason by sartre
• grapes of wrath & of mice and men by john steinbeck
• cloud atlas by david mitchell
• the scarlet letter
• don quixote by cervantes
• the trial by franz kafka
• the book of disquiet by fernando pessoa