if you want to stay within the 20th century (that's my favorite), try reading some joyce (shut up alek), starting with dubliners, then trying portrait of the artist as a young man, and then if you're ready to start understanding what you've just read, move onto Ulysses. save yourself the trouble with finnegan's wake, though, unless you think ulysses was the greatest thing you've ever read (like me).

william faulkner's the sound and the fury is also a hell of a read, and to expand upon some of the questions he raises there and elsewhere, look for light in august, and also absalom, absalom!.

(god i wish i had italics, it'd make writing these titles so much clearer).

gabriel garcia marquez: 100 years of solitude (maybe the most purely enjoyable piece of literature i've ever read).

if you like these, ask me for more suggestions, or just look for things in the same sections of your local library.

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