Recommend me 5 novels that will make my prose and vocabulary

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Madame Bovary

Crime & Punishment

The Trial

Hamlet

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Infinite Jest

Outer Dark

The Book of the New Sun

Divine Comedy

Note that these aren't strictly my favourite book, just a few I think will help you build a vast vocabulary.

>Essay Writing
Be more specifice mate

>>8119014
sweating like a pig
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>>8119069
College application essays. I have content, just want it presented in the best way possible.

>>8119014
Borges always expands the vocabulary in a practical, applicable way, but he never wrote a novel

>>8119135
>College application essays
Just read Zadie Smith or something, Toby Honestfam.

>>8119135
Just read some great essayist then, those who talk about various subject. Didion, for example.

>>8119135
Woolf

Bertrand Russell and Jane Austen

>>8119014
Nabokov is your man. Eloquent prose and eclectic vocabulary. In Lolita, there's guaranteed to be at least two words per chapter you don't know.

>>8119135
>I have content.
That makes one of us. I'm a decent writer, but nothing worth writing about has happened to me. I'm tempted to just make something up.

>>8119136
Unless you write in castillian, how does he expand your vocabulary in any way?

>>8119178
>using Lolita as a model for college application essays
The novel is great and all, but OP wants to get into the college, not make them think he strapped an onahole to a pocket thesaurus.

>>8119178
>Lolita

a girl gave me that book as a gift. spanish version, is it any good?

>>8119249
I like it. Gorgeous prose, reads almost like a poem in some parts. Really funny, too.
Plus, it's a classic and part of pop culture, so I'd say it's worth a read.