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Finarfin  ·  4348 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

Have you read Michael Lewis's The Big Short? It's a fascinating read, and makes you feel way smarter by the end.

Here's my five (all fiction):

1. Dubliners by James Joyce; arguably the most masterful short story collection ever written

2. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway; his seminal war book

3. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey; a really beautiful and out-there novel about Oregon loggers which will always have a special place in my memory

4. A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor; some of the funniest and darkest stories I've ever read

5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; just a classic, page-turning book