Novels to read once in your life
No obligation to finish them: opening them already counts.
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
Draw the family tree in pencil from chapter one.
The Leopard — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Everything must change so that everything stays the same.
Beloved — Toni Morrison
Hard, taut, indispensable.
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The devil arrives in Moscow with a talking cat.
The Abyss — Marguerite Yourcenar
Zeno, physician and heretic, in a Renaissance closing on itself.
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Grand Inquisitor stands alone, if the whole feels daunting.
Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf
One day, one city, and everything underneath.
The Road — Cormac McCarthy
Two hundred pages of ash, not one word too many.