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Haven't read any of list one, but I'd go with one of these two based upon your criteria, though I doubt either of them is "easy." Crime and Punishment All the Pretty Horses The second list has a few of my favorites: The Unbearable Lightness of Being One Hundred Years of Solitude...

I've read: American Pastoral: the book that introduced me (and subsequently addicted) to Roth Animal Farm: brilliant satire and a quick read Catch-22: best book of the 20th century Catcher in the Rye: too much teen angst for me, but not a bad read overall The Crying of Lot 49: mind-bending and...

I Married a Communist by Philip Roth Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

I think "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole fits the criteria pretty well.

I don't know... some authors take some time to become quality writers while others slip into obsolescence as they grow older... Not saying it's definitely a bad idea, but it should definitely depend upon the author we pick.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Philip Roth

Ooh, I was going to add something, but I think I'll just second Solaris and Falling Man instead.

I vote for Don DeLillo.

Monster by Sanyika Shakur Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

I'd just like to use this opportunity to say I wouldn't trust anybody who drops the name of O'Reilly, Coulter, Franken, Malkin, Moore, Hannity, Colmes, Stossel, Limbaugh, or Horowitz as a recommendation.

Um... ooh, my bad regarding the theme. If possible, I would not mind if you edited the poll to exclude my suggestion. (I don't think it's really appropriate.) If you'd like to keep it, that's your perogative of course. Sorry, everybody.

I nominate The Amalgamation Polka by Stephen Wright: It hits paperback in June, just in time for July's BotM.

I found an interesting website that, for some reason, I think a lot of people here would enjoy. www.criticker.com You put in scores for a number of movies, it creates a score composite, and then recommends movies based upon how people with similar tastes score. It gets rather accurate once...

Shame by Salman Rushdie The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

It's crackdown time here at school, but I felt I had to fit in one for Mr. Vonnegut at least: Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut

I consider Operation Shylock to be the culmination of the ideas displayed in The Counterlife and The Facts. If you like the postmodern aspect of this book, I would give those two a try. Though Shylock may be my pick for the funniest of his novels, Counterlife may be his most complex. I...

The character Jynx from this novel makes an appearance in Sabbath's Theater. A character, Matthew Balich, from Sabbath's Theater makes an appearance in The Human Stain. The narrator of that book, of course, is Nathan Zuckerman. So, ostensibly, in the world that Roth has created is one which...

I've done this plenty of times. In pointing them in a certain direction, you're certainly helping them. Who's to say they'd like what you like anyway? :P

The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright got the pick for non-fiction. I've read a bit of that one (it's on my shelf), and it seems like a great choice.