Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Other Favorite Novels

Dear Fred,

I admire your openness to suggestions.

If you have not read "Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian Chinua Achebe, I strongly encourage you to take a look. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/chinua-achebe-who-wrote-great-novel.html

"Fall Apart" easily figures in my Top Ten List - probably in my top five - along with "A Wizard Of Earthsea," "Notes From Underground," "No One Writes To The Colonel" and "The Hobbit." 

"The Picture Of Dorian Grey," "The Moviegoer," "The Winter Of Our Discontent," "The Great Divorce," "The Silver Chair," "Dune," "To Kill A Mockingbird," "Brave New World," "The Catcher In The Rye," "Nineteen Eighty Four," "In Cold Blood," "The Bridge Of San Luis Rey," "The Road," "Galapagos," and the novellas "San Manuel Bueno, Martir" and "A Christmas Carol" are other contenders for Top Ten. 

"Bruno" Traven's work certainly deserves honorable mention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven

By way of counterpoint, check out http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/03/information-vs-wisdom-and-how-novel-and.html

Pax tecum

Alan