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Marlon James's Reading List

The author, most recently, of "Black Leopard, Red Wolf" admires fantasy fiction that feels "wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords."

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By the Book: Marlon James (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-01-31).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Skippy Dies
Paul Murray · Buy on Amazon
"I've never read anything like it... it's one of the few true masterpieces of this young century."
As Meat Loves Salt
Maria McCann · Buy on Amazon
"This was the rare book that had me waking at nights, in a sweat and fretting over a character."
Cover of Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison · 1977 · Buy on Amazon
"A sense of sweep... as it is in "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, or "My Name Is Red," by Orhan Pamuk."
Cover of My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk · 1998 · Buy on Amazon
Palomar
Gilbert Hernandez · Buy on Amazon
""Palomar" is the best American novel of the past 35 years."
Cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson · Buy on Amazon
"Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it."
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë · Buy on Amazon
"everybody knows "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the finest Brontë novel."

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