dumb /mu/tant here. don't know how to books. i like these though :-)
Nabokov
>>9323273
Steppenwolf -Hermann Hesse
Opinions of a Clown (or The Clown) -Heinrich Böll
>>9324024
Lolita then Pale Fire, they're both essential. Then Pnin, Invitation to a Beheading and Speak, Memory.
>>9324130
Anon, how in the hell can you make a Nabokov recommendation without mentioning Ada. It's his best work by a significant margin
>>9323273
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller and Mr Palomar, by Calvino, if you haven't read those yet.
Life: A User's Manual by Perec, which also fits the Oulipan, European postmodernism thing that Calvino is part of.
Borges, obviously.
By Night In Chile, it's short but one of Bolaño's best.