Recommendations?
Recs of your favorite Haruki Murakami (or other fictional must-read) works? I'm ignoring the two shelves' worth of unread literature already taunting me at home and am, instead, as always, endeavoring to collect even MORE things to read
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Since you mentioned Haruki Murakami, something sort of along those lines: one of the very very best books that no one I know has ever read is Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. It's about a guy who robs and murders someone in order to devote the money to scholarship of a (fictitious) bongwater philosopher. And the bulk of the novel consists of the narrator, who is unaware that he himself has died, undergoing crazy surreal adventures in a hell perfectly tailored to himself and his crime. The prose is fabulous, and it is an incredibly funny book. Literature w/ capital L but also tremendous fun to read, not too taxing for exhausted busy people like us.
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Right now I'm reading A Song of Ice And Fire, and it'd be a good bet if you've got a yearning to get hooked on a series, because there's quite a few of them. Also, tons of people seem to be reading them right now (maybe trying to catch up before the third Game of Thrones season starts), so you'd have people to squee with; I've got three non-mutual friends who are all reading A Clash of Kings (and so am I).
Also, because I came across it today while trawling my bookshelves, Tamburlaine Must Die by Louise Welsh is awesome. The narrator is the playwright Christopher Marlowe, and it's a short, pithy, beautifully written read.
I feel like I'm forgetting something crashingly obvious.
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green should be required reading.
The Lies of Locke Lamora if you haven't already.
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