- Reading Challenge Pick
Literary Fiction
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Sethe escaped slavery years ago. The house she lives in has not let her leave it behind.
Literary Fiction
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
- Reading Challenge Pick
Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and repeat themselves in the invented town of Macondo.
- Genre
- Literary Fiction
- Audience
- Adult
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- Magical realism
- Family saga
- Translated
About the book
The defining novel of magical realism: floods, insomnia plagues, civil wars and a family that cannot stop naming its sons after itself.
Why we recommend it
A book worth reading slowly, with the family tree open. Nothing else reads quite like it.
Reading challenge selection
Prompt: A Book Outside Your Usual Genre
For readers who stay inside realism, this is the most rewarding way out of it.
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