Read The Years

Hemingway's 1920s Paris, Gertrude Stein and Fitzgerald, published after his death.

Elie Wiesel at fifteen in Auschwitz and Buchenwald; a hundred pages that changed how the Holocaust is written.

Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

Expatriates drink through Paris and Pamplona; Hemingway's lost generation.

Roquentin in a Normandy town discovers that existence is absurd, starting with a chestnut root.

Bob Dylan's memoir, mostly about the years nobody asked about.

Knausgaard's father, alcohol and the cleaning of a house of death; 3,600 pages begin.