Recommend a Novel?

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To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Expectations
Brothers Karamazov
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
 
The only two on your list I haven’t read are Brothers Karamazov and Moby Dick. I loved the movie Moby Dick with Gregory Peck and recently have really wanted to read the book.
 
Try these, though they may not be sci-fi or political enough (or at all), but these are nonetheless great novels I’ve read in the past, in case you can’t find anything else:
  • A Canticle For Leibowitz
  • A Prayer For Owen Meany
  • Pay It Forward
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Hobbit
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • Fall of Giants
  • Remember Me Like This
  • Take Me With You
 
“All The King’s Men” Robert Penn Warren
“Blood Meridian” And “The Texas/Mexico Trilogy” Cormac McCarthy
“Invisible Man” Ralph Ellison
“Middlemarch” George Eliot AKA Mary Ann Evans
“The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter” Carson McCullers"
“The Sanctuary” And “The Sound And The Fury” William Faulkner
“The Stranger” Albert Camus

Long Reads: (900 + Pages)
“Shadow Country” Peter Mathiessen
“Underworld” Don DeLillo
 
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Thanks for posting, I hadn’t heard of him until now. The synopsis immediately reminded me of the book Priestblock 25487 by Jean Bernard, another true story from that terrible time that reads like a novel.
 
One of my all-time favorite books is the “The Shadow of the Wind,” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. If you liked the Name of the Rose, try “Foucault’s Pendulum” by Eco. It’s another good one.
 
The Ball and the Cross - GK Chesterton

Maus (a graphic novel) - Art Spiegelman

Twelve Years a Slave (not a novel, but quite riveting) - Solomon Northup
 
I enjoy reading Dean Koontz because he is very Catholic friendly in his novels
 
I was at a Men’s Conference yesterday anbd saw that they have a graphic novel edition as well, ig you’re into that
 
I’m not into graphic novels that much, but I love Maus by Art Spiegelman.
 
Also, Graham Greene’s “The End of the Affair” and “The Power and the Glory.”
 
I have tried to read Moby Dick, I have tried to listen to the audio book. Nope. It is simply too dense.

And Russian novels, those are an acquired taste. They are toooo sad for me.
 
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January First, it’s an illuminating story about a father at his wits end when it comes to managing his schizophrenic daughter. Plus, it gets rather depressing at times
 
Last night I finished the second novel in the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. Tonight I will begin the third (all as audiobooks on Hoopla!)
 
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