5 Famous Novels to Read | Famous Novels of All Time
List of 5 famous novels to read. These novels are the best of the decade. Check out the booklist.
1. A Visit from the Goon Squad
Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.
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2. The Buddha in the Attic
Following her highly acclaimed first novel When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka’s second novel The Buddha in the Attic – winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012 – tells a powerful story of a group of Japanese immigrants on their journey to America for marriage. Between the wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America.
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3. The Tiger’s Wife
Recalling stories her grandfather told her as a child, Natalia suspects he may have died trying to unravel two mysteries. One was the fate of a tiger which escaped during German bombing raids in 1941; the other a man who claimed to be immortal. But, as Natalia learns, there are no simple truths or easy answers in this landscape echoing with myths but still scarred by war.
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4. Salvage the Bones
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets; she’s fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting.
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5. The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers is an intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. At its center is Kushner’s brilliantly realized protagonist, a young woman on the verge. Thrilling and fearless, this is a major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination.
