As 2016 draws to an end, what has been the best book you've

I've read an awful lot of Hamsun's work this year. My favourites being Growth of the Soil and Victoria.
To the Lighthouse has also been one of the most memorable reads of the year for me.

>>8790331
Did you read Hunger? I particularly enjoyed that one - I haven't tried Victoria yet, will have to give that one a try.

>>8790339
Yes, but I didn't like it as much as his later work. Really potent as far as characterization goes, and I can see the enormous influence it must have had to modernist writers after him, but his prose is really not at his brightest in Hunger.
Victoria is really short, heart-wrenching and profoundly lyrical. It's one of the few books that has made me literally cry halfway in. Definetly recommend it, even more when you can read it in an afternoon.

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>>8790327
That looks like a good book. I think I will look for it at the library.

The best book I read this year was 100 Years of Solitude. His characters were so lifelike yet capable of becoming fantastic which really drew me in. I read the book over the course of a day and by the end I could feel the whirlwind tearing down the fantasy world and bringing me back to the start of the story and my own reality.

Labyrinths by Borges

>>8790327
Ulysses for fiction, and Northmen by John Haywood for non-fiction.

>>8790327
I just finished my 98th an hour ago. Going for the triple digits. The best was probably "the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind" by Julian Jayness