(#6) Living Fearless by Jamie Winship

(#5) The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

(#4) The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco

(#3) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

(#2) The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector

(#1) The Public Burning by Robert Coover

2026 reads:

There's a locked bedroom in the airbnb I'm staying in, and I am haunted by the almost certain reality that someone is in there waiting by some infernal calculus for the right time to murder me (not a pretty murder)

(#51) Battles in the Desert by José Emilio Pacheco

(#50) Amulet by Roberto Bolaño

(#49) Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes

(#48) Solaris by Stanisław Lem

(#47) Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan

Have you read Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz? Just based on your last few comments I think you'd really like it.

There's something really magical about it. Initially it doesn't seem like much but it enchants you. It was one of my favorite reading experiences.

The stuff by Beat Furrer really feels like the neurotic behavior of the zoo animals (also just a great name) and Guero by Helmut Lachenmann is so good. There are some good performances of it on YT

I just finished this a few days ago. Loved it. I'm not exactly sure why, but the last section with the older Samuel and the music "ekphrases" made the whole book great.

(#46) Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

(#45) Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard

(#44) Weak in Comparison to Dreams by James Elkins

(#43) Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee

(#42) The Missing Pieces by Henri Lefebvre, translated by David L. Sweet

(#41) Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz, translated by Max Lawton

(#40) Blood Music by Greg Bear

(#39) The Eyes of the Overworld by Jack Vance

(#38) The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

(#37) Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

(#36) Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal

(#35) The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay