Trying to read more English books rather than translations but

"The Rainbow" by DH Lawrence
"Patterson" by William Carlos Williams
"Portrait of an artist as a young dog" by Dylan Thomas

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treatise of human nature

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crying of the lot 49
lolita

ulysses of course

Oscar Wilde ffs

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Graham Swift - Waterland
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children & The Satanic Verses
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Herman Melville - Moby-Dick
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Coetzee - Disgrace or Foe
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the D'urbervilles
Anything by George Orwell especially Nineteen Eighty Four, Animal Farm, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia
Anything by Oscar Wilde

That should keep you busy for a while. If the list is too eccentric for you and you need those bangers that have internet approval like Fight Club or something like that then check out anything by Irvine Welsh especially Trainspotting. Then when you drop that name to other hipsters you'll immediately be seen as the alpha reader. But read my list, might do you some good idk who cares

Oxford Book of English Verse
Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Edith Wharton- The Age of Innocence. And Henry James-The Aspern Papers. The Turn of the Screw is good too. James does novellas better than he does novels.

Thanks so much guys this is exactly what I need!

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I read a few of his plays actually, if I thought of him I would've included him on the list.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman. The veracity and controversy of this book are unbelievable almost 300 years later. Plus Sterne was an Irish writer and quite seals the deal that the Brits have not produced anything of note in literature after Shakespeare

Just finished Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses

Fucking incredible book, especially if modernism tickles your taint

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This speaks to the oppressed Irishman in me thanks

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paradife loft

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>reading
>not boring as fuck
Anybody who still enjoys reading without feeling frustration over books not holding up to your standards is still a kiddo.
Wise humans either go full blown hedonism and go out a couple of times a week high on mdma "dancing" on electro OR become buddhists living a non-life of Eastern stoicism.