What's a good book to read?


then I have so many recommendations! :) (I'm more of a fiction reader than non-fiction)

Fiction (mostly dystopians/magical realism):
- Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami -- if you haven't read anything by him)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
- Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
- Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood)
- Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
- One Hundred Year of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Non-Fiction
- The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Carol Dweck)
- Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
- David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

These are my favorites but there is obviously a skew in fiction genre because dystopian novels are my favorite. If there's a particular genre you'd want to see more of, I'd be happy to indulge more.

For metafiction, I'd recommend:
Anything and everything by Vonnegut (emphasis on Slaughterhouse-Five)
Infinite Jest (it's a BEAST)
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
NW by Zadie Smith (she also just came out with a book called 'Z' that's more recent)

I'd also reemphasize Kafka on the Shore and Handmaid's Tale, given your preferences. 

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