A billion times: Die Eule mit der Beule (The owl with the bump). A picture book for toddlers that rhymes and because it was such a great success, there is also Der Biber hat Fieber (The beaver with a fever) and Das Einhorn ohne Horn vorn (The unicorn without a horn) and other funny titles 😄
Besides of lots of Bukowski's (obviously), The LA quartet by James Ellroy, particulary "White Jazz" who's radical writing sets it apart from the others 🤩
Just going to add To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara. The final third, about climate change, pandemic and far right government in New York should send shivers down the spine of every single American in today's political situation.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, the most extraordinary time switch novel.
Also, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: grim, heart wrending and so so clever.
My most read book is Jem by Frederik Pohl. Written in 1979, it shows political/social divides on a new colonized planet that still exists 50+ years later in the real world. It is a brilliant treatise on what was to come.
Another one is Silverberg's The World Inside. His vision of the future has not come true, yet, but it could. The best sci-fi taps into a real possible near future. It is fiction only in the sense it hasn't happen yet.
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Also, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver: grim, heart wrending and so so clever.
Animal Farm
The Master and Margarita
I am still looking for the fnords