Novels, Deep-Read

01The Three-Body Problem — one person answered on behalf of everyoneLiu Cixin · 2008 02The Dark Forest — why the universe is silent, and one man's deterrenceLiu Cixin · 2008 03Death's End — when love becomes a civilization's fatal flawLiu Cixin · 2010 04Ball Lightning — how one obsession eats a whole lifeLiu Cixin · 2005 05Supernova Era — the planet handed to everyone under thirteenLiu Cixin · 2003 01Journey to the West — How a monkey gets absorbed into the institutionWu Cheng'en · 1592 02The Lord of the Rings — The Ring must be destroyed, not usedJ. R. R. Tolkien · 1954 01Nineteen Eighty-Four — Change the language and you change what can be thoughtGeorge Orwell · 1949 01One Hundred Years of Solitude — What destroys Macondo is somebody finishing the bookGabriel García Márquez · 1967 02Midnight's Children — A midwife swapped two name-tags at midnightSalman Rushdie · 1981 03The Master and Margarita — The devil audits Moscow and breaks no lawMikhail Bulgakov · 1967 01The Trial — You are charged; nobody will say with whatFranz Kafka · 1925 02The Metamorphosis — The last to agree he should go is GregorFranz Kafka · 1915 01Ulysses — One ordinary day expanded into the whole human mindJames Joyce · 1922 02In Search of Lost Time — How one pastry gives back an entire vanished lifeMarcel Proust · 1927 03The Sound and the Fury — Told four times, and its center never speaksWilliam Faulkner · 1929 04Don Quixote — Nobody refutes him, everyone plays along to the endMiguel de Cervantes · 1615 05The Magic Mountain — Seven years in a sanatorium, all of Europe's case notesThomas Mann · 1924 06Ficciones — He wrote no novels, only reviews of books that never existedJorge Luis Borges · 1944 07To the Lighthouse — Ten years and three deaths, all inside bracketsVirginia Woolf · 1927 01Dream of the Red Chamber — The ending is handed over in chapter fiveCao Xueqin · 1791 02War and Peace — History's flood and a family dinner stitched into one clothLeo Tolstoy · 1869 03Call to Arms — Is it worth waking a few people inside a sealed iron house?Lu Xun · 1923 04The Great Gatsby — The American dream at its prettiest and emptiestF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 05Romance of the Three Kingdoms — One private oath burns down a kingdomLuo Guanzhong · c.14C 01To Live — After burying everyone he lovesYu Hua · 1993 02Things Fall Apart — Before the colonizers arrived, Africa was not a blankChinua Achebe · 1958 03White Deer Plain — Who may pass through the ancestral hall's doorChen Zhongshi · 1993 01Pride and Prejudice — In the marriage market, what does it take to see someone?Jane Austen · 1813 02Madame Bovary — Fantasy versus the bills, and a scalpelGustave Flaubert · 1857 03The Brothers Karamazov — If there is no God, is everything permitted?Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 04The Tale of Genji — What he did returns in the same shape twenty years onMurasaki Shikibu · 1010 05No Longer Human — "Disqualified from being human," put so no one can unhear itOsamu Dazai · 1948 06Anna Karenina — Her crime isn't the affair, it's refusing to lieLeo Tolstoy · 1877 01The Name of the Rose — The murderer is a book; the motive is laughterUmberto Eco · 1980