City Life, by Donald Barthelme. Wizardly fantasies, written with Kafka's purity of language and some of Beckett's grim humor.
Mr. Sammler's Planet, by Saul Bellow. A highly intelligent example of a rare form, the philosophical novel.
Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion. Madame Bovary in Hollywoodwritten in masterly, spare, sinuous prose.
Local Anaesthetic, by Günter Grass. A darkly humorous allegory that tunnels through the moral and metaphysical confusions of the contemporary West.
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. A teeming chronicle of one family that may or may not...
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