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Jan's PicksJAN'S PICKS Here's my list, so far, of books I consider "great reads." I'm not exacly sure what I mean by "great," but POWERFUL and MEMORABLE have a lot to do with it. Compelling, fascinating, mind-expanding...all of that, too, I'd say, and more. In no particular order: LOLITA, Vladimir Nabokov ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald THE HUMAN STAIN, Philip Roth A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, John Irving MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN, Salmon Rushdie THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, Thomas Mann ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE, Robert Pirsig THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, Arundhati Roy INVISIBLE MAN, Ralph Ellison ANNA KARENINA, Leo Tolstoy THE RAINBOW, D. H. Lawrence THE GLASS BEAD GAME, Hermann Hesse MOBY-DICK, Herman Melville THE MARRIAGES BETWEEN ZONES THREE, FOUR AND FIVE, Doris Lessing THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, Shirley Hazzard INVISIBLE CITIES, Italo Calvino THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje DISGRACE, J. M. Coetzee 100 LOVE SONNETS, Pablo Neruda RUNAWAY, Alice Munro (More to come)
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