Read Gravity's Rainbow

Oedipa Maas and a secret postal system; Pynchon in 150 pages.

Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect and his family adjusts; Kafka in sixty pages.

You, the reader, keep starting novels that break off; Calvino's game.

Marco Polo describes fifty-five cities to Kublai Khan, all of them Venice.

A novel you can read in two orders; Cortazar's Paris and Buenos Aires.

The reboot: Piccadilly, the embassy and night-vision raids.

One June day in London, a party and a shell-shocked veteran; Woolf's stream of consciousness.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.