Oh, man, how did I forget Clockwork Orange? It's iconic

Remembrance of Things Past is overlooked a lot. Complex, delicious sentences that need to be savored more than once. A storyline that is stunning and contemporary. It’s a real shame that this beauty has fallen away.

I would lose Alchemist, Hunger Games and The Help and Twelve Years a Slave. If you want a slave narrative, read Sojourner Truth.

The Marriage Plot by Eugenides

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michsel Chabon

Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolff

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

Interview with the Vampire / The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

A Confederacy of Dunces! So good

No Toni Morrison or Willa Cather?

Most SF has no scientific aspects that aren't just fantasy mumbo jumbo. I would recommend The Fifth Season as fantasy, but it's not less SF than Star Trek is.

The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Ironically I downloaded it earlier this week and I’ve actually had a 7-day reading streak, so I do find it very helpful!

Hadn't heard that, if it happened it's not great and I would hope she would be better. I would certainly like a cite on it though.

I would add The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I would also strongly advocate for removing The Alchemist. Seriously, that book is atrocious.

Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

Remains of the Day by Kazuou Ishiguro

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Would be my suggestions to add to the list

My own personal issue with CoHo is that she doesn’t have any content warnings of the “plot twists” she frequently uses that are very, very traumatic situations. (And yes I’m aware the argument can be made for it being spoilers but as someone with specific triggers it would be very helpful to know these things.) I’ve only read It Ends With Us and Ugly Love and had to take a break from reading both after the major plot twist. I refuse to read another book by that woman

The Color Purple

The Three Musketeers

A Clockwork Orange

Slaugherhouse-Five

Dangerous Liasons

Gotta get something by Kazuo Ishiguro on there! I suggest Never Let Me Go or The Remains of the Day

I'd suggest Dune by Frank Herbert

Peripheral was terrible, but I stuck with it because Agency was supposedly better and needed the background info. Now that I have read the first quarter of Agency I feel like I have wasted enough time.

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you are correct.

There are zero scientific aspects that aren't just fantasy mumbo jumbo.

The way they ruined my boy Wilf Nertherton on the TV show made my blood boil.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think Gibson's books got worse because we actually got to the future and it wasn't 80s Cyberpunk so he had to change the feel of the books, and it was never quite as good.

It's fantasy with a sci-fi bent. There is a big component of tech and how nature works in this world that is in the sci-fi realm. There's a lot of scientific aspects in the world building.

It's so good! It does resolve and make sense to a really great effect.

I actually enjoyed the shifts in narrative voice. It gives us a mystery to piece together as readers.

Agree. My advice is trust the process.