What are some other books that go through the entire life of the main character?
100 Years of Solitude go through the entire lives of a dozen characters.
The Autumn of the Patriarch mostly sticks to one though if you're not trying to overwhelm yourself with sweet fictitious biographies.
Either way only read Marquez.
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Sinuhe
The Tin Drum goes from childhood to adulthood
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The Bible
It's amazing
Doctor Faustus by Mann
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
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How could no one have mentioned siddhartha?
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This was pretty fucking bad
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Les Miserables
Frankenstein
Never Let Me Go
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The emigrants series
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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don't start
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The Waves
the waves is a 6-in-1 deal when it comes to the life story of a main character
also a bonus: it's actually good
The tree of knowledge by Pio Baroja (also starts on the arrival of the main character to Uni)
Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno