Which book should I read first?

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All 20th century books in my bucket list.

[omar04]

I liked A Bend in the River the most.

[RosettaStoned]

One Hundred Years of Solitude.

[An American Tail: Fubart Goes West]

I tried reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and couldn’t make it past page 150 or so. Very dense and all of the characters have basically the same name. Part of why I had issues with Daenerys’s storyline in A Dance with Dragons was all of the Mereenese names.

Never heard of the others.

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I tried reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and couldn’t make it past page 150 or so. Very dense and all of the characters have basically the same name. Part of why I had issues with Daenerys’s storyline in A Dance with Dragons was all of the Mereenese names.

Never heard of the others.

The cliff notes I have of them without reading them:

Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth book about a man addicted to masturbating

Infinite Jest - DFW, million pages long, is about a handful of plots including Quebec nationalist terrorism and tennis all set in a dystopian future

Bend in the River - Naipul, sort of like Heart of Darkness but written about a Muslim Indian living in Africa

Midnight's Children - Rushdie, masgical realism about the partition of india

Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon, postmodern novel themed about the V2 rocket

[SevenEleven]

Portnoy's Complaint.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Never heard of any of these.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

A Bend in the River is one of the finest novels written in any language ever and includes a plot twist towards the end that is so perfect (and in its way quite beautiful) that even forty years on from its publication I would avoid giving any spoilers.

Infinite Jest is also worth the effort. It is a very moving book; it is also a very funny book. Very, very funny. The reputation that it has acquired in certain (stupid) sections of the internet is entirely unwarranted and is honestly hard to square with the text itself.

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A Bend in the River is one of the finest novels written in any language ever and includes a plot twist towards the end that is so perfect (and in its way quite beautiful) that even forty years on from its publication I would avoid giving any spoilers.

Yes, feel flattered, because your recommendation is the reason it has been on my list for so long.