Read Infinite Jest

Two friends build video games over thirty years; the novel about work and love.

Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley across two generations; Steinbeck's own favourite.

From the 1951 home run to the Cold War's waste; DeLillo's 800-page America.

Six nested stories from 1849 to a post-apocalyptic Hawaii; Mitchell's puzzle box.

Four families and a mother's search for a husband for Lata in 1950s India; 1,349 pages.

Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.

Five parts, a missing German novelist and the murdered women of Santa Teresa; Bolano's unfinished monument.

A 999-line poem and the mad commentary of the man who stole it; Nabokov's puzzle novel.