Paulo Coelho, 1988
Date read: 9/5/25
This is the kind of novel I am doing this list to find! I wish I could read Portuguese because I suspect it would be even better in the original. But it is just the perfect novel. It is the kind of story you read and it lives in your brain thereafter. Gorgeous.
Henry James, 1904 Did Not Finish I can't get into it. This is one where the whole exposition is given in the second chapter and there's...
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Charles Baudelaire, 1857 DID NOT FINISH I don't know why this was included on lists of greatest novels because it isn't a novel. It's a...
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