Novels

[Jonathan Nitzan]

Novels

by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

Originally posted on The Bichler & Nitzan Archives

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The study of society today is divided into different disciplines – the so-called social sciences – a division that fractures our consciousness into disconnected bits and pieces. Literature does the very opposite: it brings things together, offering glimpses into the enfolded, hologramic nature of society. Here are some of the novels that helped us understand this hologramic enfoldment from different angles. They are all worth reading.

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1. Adelstein, Jake. 2009. Tokyo Vice. An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books.
2. Adiga, Aravind. 2008. The White Tiger: A Novel. New York: Free Press.
3. Aitmatov, Chingiz. 1983. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years. Translated by John French. Foreword by Katerina Clark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
4. Andrić, Ivo. 1963. [2018]. Bosnian Chronicle. Translated by Celia Hawkesworth. Introduction by Michael Schmidt. UK: Head of Zeus.
5. Asimov, Isaac. 1988. Prelude to Foundation. London: Grafton Books.
6. Asimov, Isaac. 1988. Robot Trilogy: The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn. Del Rey. 1st Ballantine Books Trade Edition.
7. Bach, Richard. 1969. [1990]. Nothing by Chance. New York: Dell.
8. Babchenko, Arkadiæi. 2008. One Soldier’s War in Chechnya. Translated from the Russian by Nick Allen. London: Portobello.
9. Ballard, J. G. 1984. Empire of the Sun. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.
10. Balzac, Honorâe de. 1965. Cousin Bette. Part One of Poor Relations. Translated by Marion Ayton Crawford. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
11. Balzac, Honorâe de. 1968. Cousin Pons. Part Two of Poor Relations. Translated and introduced by Herbert J. Hunt. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
12. Balzac, Honorâe de. 2001. Lost Illusions. Translated by Kathleen Raine. Introduction by Richard Howard. Notes by James Madden. New York: Modern Library.
13. Ben-David, Mishkah. 2016. Forbidden Love in St. Petersburg. Translated by Dan Gillon. New York, NY: The Overlook Press.
14. Bey, Essad. 1932. Blood and Oil in the Orient. Translated from the German by Elsa Talmey. New York: Simon and Schuster.
15. Boo, Katherine. 2012. Behind the Beautiful Forevers. 1st ed. New York: Random House.
16. Bosse, Malcolm J. 1983. The Warlord. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.
17. Browning, Christopher R. 1998. Ordinary Men. Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. Reissued with a New Afterward by the Author. 1st HarperPerennial ed. New York: HarperPerennial.
18. Buck, Pearl S. 1931. The Good Earth. New York: The John Day Company.
19. Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas evich. 1968. The Heart of a Dog. Translated with an introduction by Michael Glenny. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace & Wolff.
20. Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas evich. 1995. The Master & Margarita. Annotations & afterword by Ellendea Proffer. Translated by D. B. K. T. O’Connor. Dana Point, CA: Ardis.
21. Burgess, Anthony. 1978. 1985. 1st ed. Boston: Little Brown.
22. Canetti, Elias. 1999. The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes. 1st ed. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux.
23. Camus, Albert. 1958. Exile and the Kingdom. Translated from the French by Justin O’Brien. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
24. Capek, Karel. 1937. [1985]. War with the Newts. Introduction by Ivan Klíma. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
25. Card, Orson Scott. 1992. Ender’s Game. Revised Trade Paperback ed. New York: Tor.
26. Carey, Peter. 2000. True History of the Kelly Gang. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf.
27. Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. 1932. [1983]. Journey to the End of the Night. Translated by R. Manheim. np: New Directions.
28. Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. 1936. [1966]. Death on the Installment Plan. Translated by R. Manheim. New York: New Directions.
29. Cendrars, Blaise. 1918. [1984]. The Severed Hand. New York: Stein & Day Pub.
30. Chang, Jung. 1991. Wild Swans. Three Daughters of China. New York: Simon & Schuster.
31. Cheng, Nien. 1986. Life and Death in Shanghai. London: Grafton.
32. Clavell, James. 1962. King Rat. 1st ed. Boston: Little Brown.
33. Clavell, James. 1966. Tai-Pan. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum.
34. Clavell, James. 1975. Shogun. A Novel of Japan. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum. [Then read Smith, Henry, ed. 1980. Learning from Shogun. Japanese History and Western Fantasy. Santa Barbara: University of California Santa Barbara.]
35. Clavell, James. 1986. Whirlwind. 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow.
36. Coetzee, J. M. 1980. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Secker & Warburg.
37. Coetzee, J. M. 1999. Disgrace. London: Secker & Warburg.
38. Coonts, Stephen. 1986. Flight of the Intruder. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press.
39. Crichton, Michael. 1992. Rising Sun. A Novel. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House.
40. Crichton, Michael. 2002. Prey. 1st ed. New York: Harper Collins Publishers.
41. Crichton, Michael. 2004. State of Fear. A Novel. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers.
42. De Bernières, Louis. 1994. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. London: Secker & Warburg.
43. Deighton, Len. 1982. Goodbye, Mickey Mouse. 1st ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House.
44. Dicker, Joël. 2014. The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. Translated by S. Taylor. New York, New York: Penguin Books.
45. Doctorow, E. L. 1976. Ragtime. Toronto and New York: Bantam Books.
46. Doxiadis, Apostolos K. 2000. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture. London: Faber and Faber.
47. Duffy, Peter. 2003. The Bielski Brothers. The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins.
48. Dugain, Marc. 2007. Une exécution ordinaire : roman. Paris: Gallimard. [No English translation.]
49. Eco, Umberto. 1983. The Name of the Rose. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 1st ed. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
50. Eggers, Dave. 2006. What Is the What. The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. A Novel. San Francisco: McSweeney’s.
51. el-Saadawi, Nawal. 1988. Memoirs of a Woman Doctor. Translated by Catherine Cobham. London: Saqi Books.
52. Fallada, Hans. 2009. Every Man Dies Alone. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Afterword by Geoff Wilkes. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House Pub.
53. Fast, Howard. 1943. Citizen Tom Paine. New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce.
54. Faye, Lyndsay. 2012. The Gods of Gotham. New York: Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
55. Fisher, David. 1983. The War Magician. New York: Coward-McCann.
56. France, Anatole. 1890. [1948]. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. A Translation by Lafcadio Hearn. Illustrated by Hope-Read. London: Folio Society.
57. Herbert, Frank. 1965. Dune. New York: Ace Books.
58. García Márquez, Gabriel. 1970. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row.
59. Gary, Romain. 1958. The Roots of Heaven. New York: Simon and Schuster.
60. Gary, Romain. 1960. A European Education. New York: Simon and Schuster.
61. Gary, Romain. 1962. Promise at Dawn. London: M. Joseph.
62. Glynn, Alan. 2012. Bloodland. A Novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Picador.
63. Gogol, Nikolaĭ Vasilevich. 2012. Dead Souls. An Epic Poem. Translated from the Russian and with introduction by Donald Rayfield. New York: New York Review Books.
64. Golding, William. 1960. Lord of the Flies. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books.
65. Graves, Robert. 1929. Good-bye to All That. An Autobiography. London: Cape.
66. Graves, Robert. 1934. I, Claudius. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, born B.C. 10, Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas.
67. Graves, Robert. 1938. [1982]. Count Belisarius. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
68. Graves, Robert. 1946. King Jesus. New York: Creative Age Press.
69. Graves, Robert. 1947. The Golden Fleece. 2nd ed. London: Cassell.
70. Greene, Graham. 1978. The Human Factor. Toronto: Bodley Head: Clarke Irwin.
71. Grisham, John. 1995. The Rainmaker. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday.
72. Grisham, John. 1996. The Runaway Jury. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday.
73. Grisham, John. 2014. Gray Mountain. First ed. New York: Doubleday.
74. Harris, Robert. 2012. The Fear Index. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
75. Harrison, Colin. 2000. Afterburn. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
76. Harrison, Colin. 2008. The Finder. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
77. Haffner, Sebastian. 2002. Defying Hitler: A Memoir. 1st American ed. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux.
78. Hameiri, Avigdor. 1952. The Great Madness. New York: Vantage Press 1952.
79. Heller, Joseph. 1961. Catch-22. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.
80. Herzl, Theodor. 1941. Old-New Land (“Altneuland”). Translated from the original 1902 German by Lotta Levensohn, with a preface by Stephen S. Wise. New York: Bloch publishing co.
81. Hasek, Jaroslav. 1937. The Good Soldier: Schweik. Translated by P. Selver. Garden City New York: The Sun Dial Press, Inc., Publishers.
82. Heinlein, Robert A. 1991. Stranger in a Strange Land. New York: Putnam.
83. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. 2007. Infidel. New York: Free Press.
84. Hosseini, Khaled. 2003. The Kite Runner. London: Bloomsbury.
85. Houellebecq, Michel. 2003. Platform. A Novel. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. New York: Knopf.
86. Houellebecq, Michel. 2000. The Elementary Particles. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. New York: Knopf.
87. Houellebecq, Michel. 2005. The Possibility of an Island. Translated from the French by Gavin Bowd. 1st American ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
88. Houellebecq, Michel. 2015. Submission. A Novel. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
89. Houellebecq, Michel. 2019. Serotonin. Translated by S. Whiteside. First American edition. ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
90. Hugo, Victor. 2008. Les Misérables. A New translation by Julie Rose. Introduction by Adam Gopnik. Notes by James Madden. Modern Library ed. New York: Modern Library.
91. Huxley, Aldous. 1932. Brave New World. With a special Forward by the author. New York: The Modern Library.
92. Huxley, Aldous. 1962. Island. A Novel. 1st ed. New York: Harper.
93. Japrisot, Sâebastien. 1980. One Deadly Summer. Translated by Alan Sheridan. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
94. Japrisot, Sâebastien. 1990. The Passion of Women. A Novel. Translated by Ros Schwartz. 1st American ed. New York: Crown.
95. John, David. 2018. Star of the North. A Novel. New York: Crown.
96. Johnson, Adam. 2012. The Orphan Master’s Son. A Novel. 1st ed. New York: Random House.
97. Jones, Chris Morgan. 2012. An Agent of Deceit. Kreshatyk: Pan Publishing.
98. Kafka, Franz. 1937. [1956]. The Trial. Revised, and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. Translated by W. A. E. Muir. New York: The Modern Library.
99. Kashua, Sayed. 2012. Second Person Singular. Translated from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsburg. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press.
100. Kazantzakis, Nikos. 1952. Zorba the Greek. Translated by Carl Wildman. With an introduction by Ian Scott-Kilvert, The Modern European Library. London: J. Lehmann.
101. Kirino, Natsuo. 2008. Grotesque. Translated by R. L. Copeland. New York, NY: Vintage International/Vintage Books.
102. Koestler, Arthur. 1941. Darkness at Noon. Translated by D. Hardy. New York: The Macmillan company.
103. Koestler, Arthur. 1946. Thieves in the Night. Chronicle of an Experiment. London: Macmillan.
104. Koestler, Arthur. 1952. Arrow in the Blue. An Autobiography. London: Collins with H. Hamilton.
105. Kosinski, Jerzy N. 1966. The Painted Bird. London: W.H. Allen.
106. Kosinski, Jerzy N. 1971. Being There. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
107. Kundera, Milan. 1984. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row.
108. L’Amour, Louis. 1986. Last of the Breed. Toronto and New York: Bantam Books.
109. Larson, Erik. 2003. The Devil in the White City. Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. 1st ed. New York: Crown Publishers.
110. Larson, Erik. 2011. In the Garden of Beasts. Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin. 1st ed. New York: Crown.
111. Larsson, Stieg. 2010. The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, and The Girl Who Played With Fire. Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland. New York: Knopf Deluxe Edition.
112. Le Guin, Ursula K. 1974. The Dispossessed. An Ambiguous Utopia. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row.
113. Lem, Stanisaw. 1970. Solaris. Translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox. Afterword by Darko Suvin. New York: Walker.
114. Lessing, Doris May. 1962. The Golden Notebook. New York: Simon and Schuster.
115. Levi, Primo. 1960. If this is a Man. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf. 2nd ed. London: Orion Press.
116. Lilin, Nicolai. 2011. Siberian Education. Growing Up in a Criminal Underworld. Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt. 1st American ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
117. London, Jack. 1907. [1957]. The Iron Heel. New York: Hill and Wang.
118. London, Jack. 1908. [2002]. Martin Eden. With an introduction by Paul Berman and notes by Christopher Gair. New York: Modern Library.
119. London, Jack. 1981. The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and other stories. Edited by Andrew Sinclair. Introduction by James Dickey, The Penguin American library. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books.
120. Lytton, Edward Bulwer. 1834. [1979]. The Last Days of Pompeii. With an introduction by Edgar Johnson & illustrations by Kurt Craemer. London: Sidgwick & Jackson.
121. Malamud, Bernard. 1961. A New Life. New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy.
122. Malraux, André. 1934. Man’s Fate: La Condition Humaine. New York: Modern Library.
123. Mankell, Henning. 1998. The White Lioness. A Mystery. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. New York: New Press. Distributed by Norton.
124. Mankell, Henning. 2003. Dogs of Riga. A Kurt Wallander Mystery. Translated by Laurie Thompson. New York: New Press. Distributed by W.W. Norton.
125. Mankell, Henning. 2010. The Man from Beijing. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 1st North American ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
126. Maugham, W. Somerset. 1919. [2000]. The Moon and Sixpence. New York: Vintage International.
127. Mailer, Norman. 1979. The Executioner’s Song. 1st ed. Boston: Little Brown.
128. Marlantes, Karl. 2010. Matterhorn. A Novel of the Vietnam War. 1st ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press: Distributed by Publishers Group West.
129. McCarthy, Cormac. 2006. The Road. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
130. McCullough, Colleen. 1990. The First Man in Rome. 1st ed. New York: Morrow.
131. McCullough, Colleen. 1998. The Song of Troy. London: Orion.
132. McEwan, Ian. 1998. Enduring Love: A Novel. 1st ed. New York: Nan A. Talese.
133. McEwan, Ian. 2005. Saturday. London: Jonathan Cape.
134. McEwan, Ian. 2010. Solar. A Novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
135. McEwan, Ian. 2012. Sweet Tooth. A Novel. 1st American ed. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday.
136. MacLean, Alistair. 1955. H.M.S. Ulysses. London: Collins.
137. Mehta, Suketu. 2004. Maximum City. Bombay Lost and Found. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
138. Meyer, Deon. 2007. Devil’s Peak. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
139. Meyer, Philipp. 2013. The Son. 1st ed. New York, New York: Ecco Press, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
140. Miller, Arthur. 1948. Death of a Salesman. Authorized acting edition. ed. New York: Dramatists play Service.
141. Modiano, Patrick. 2005. Missing Person. Translated from the French by Daniel Weissbort. 1st ed. Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine.
142. Moore, Graham. 2016. The Last Days of Night. A Novel. New York: Random House.
143. Morante, Elsa. 1977. History. A Novel. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf.
144. Monsarrat, Nicholas. 1951. The Cruel Sea. 1st ed. New York: Knopf.
145. Morrison, Toni. 1987. Beloved. A Novel. 1st ed. New York: Knopf. Distributed by Random House.
146. Moravia, Alberto. 1970. The Conformist. New York: Ace.
147. Murakami, Haruki. 1991. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. A Novel. Translated by A. Birnbaum. 1st ed. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha Internationa: Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha America.
148. Murakami, Haruki. 2000. Norwegian Wood. Translated by J. Rubin. New York: Vintage International.
149. Nesbø, Jo. 2006. The Redbreast. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Harper.
150. Nunn, Malla. 2009. A Beautiful Place to Die. A Novel. 1st Atria Books Hardcover ed. New York: Atria Books.
151. Orwell, George. 1936. [1999]. Keep the Aspidistra Flying. San Diego: Harcourt Brace.
152. Orwell, George. 1937. The Road to Wigan Pier. London: V. Gollancz Ltd.
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155. Orwell, George. 1960. Down and Out in Paris and London. New Uniform ed. London: Secker & Warburg.
156. Perrault, Gilles. 1968. The Red Orchestra. Translated from the French by Peter Wiles & Len Ortzen. London: Barker.
157. Prâevost, Antoine François. 2004. The Story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut. Translated with an introduction and notes by Angela Scholar. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. First published in French in 1731.
158. Puzo, Mario. 1965. The Fortunate Pilgrim. 1st. ed. New York: Atheneum.
159. Puzo, Mario. 1969. The Godfather. New York: Putnam.
160. Puzo, Mario. 1978. Fools Die. New York: Putnam.
161. Qiu, Xiaolong. 2000. Death of a Red Heroine. New York: Soho Press.
162. Oz, Amos. 1973. Elsewhere, Perhaps. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the author. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
163. Oz, Amos. 2004. A Tale of Love and Darkness. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. 1st U.S. ed. Orlando: Harcourt.
164. Ozeki, Ruth L. 1998. My Year of Meats. New York: Viking.
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167. Remarque, Erich Maria. 1954. A Time to Love and a Time to Die. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. New York: Harcourt Brace.
168. Roberts, Gregory David. 2004. Shantaram. A Novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
169. Roberts, Paul William. 1994. Empire of the Soul: Some Journeys in India. Toronto, Canada: Stoddart.
170. Rushdie, Salman. 2005. Shalimar the Clown. 1st ed. New York: Random House.
171. Sagan, Carl. 1985. Contact. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.
172. Salih, Tayeb. 1969. [2003]. Season of Migration to the North. Translated by Denys Johnson-Davies. London and New York: Penguin.
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[jmc]

Impressive list! At the rate of a novel a month, that’s around 17 years of reading.

[Jonathan Nitzan]

Arithmetic aside, reading is a joy, not a chore.

[jmc]

My arithmetic was not meant to imply that reading novels was a chore. In fact, I have selected many novels from one of your older lists.

I can think of some more great novels that aid the in the production of a hologramic view of society:

1. Achebe, Chinua. 1958. Things Fall Apart.
2. Egan, Jennifer. 2010. A Visit from the Goon Squad.
3. Farrell, J. G.. 1970. Troubles.
4. Krasznahorkai, László. 1985. [2012]. Sátántangó.  Translated by George Szirtes.
5. McCoy, Horace. 1935. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
6. Toole, John Kennedy. 1980. A Confederacy of Dunces.

 

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by jmc.
• This reply was modified 3 years ago by jmc.

[Jonathan Nitzan]

jmc wrote:

My arithmetic was not meant to imply that reading novels was a chore.

Of course not. My answer was a tongue-in-cheek clarification for others….

And thank you for the additional suggestions!

[jmc]

Jonathan Nitzan wrote:

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas evich. 1968. The Heart of a Dog. Translated with an introduction by Michael Glenny. 1st ed. New York: Harcourt Brace & Wolff.

Just finished this. It’s short but packs a punch! I still have a personal preference for Master and Margarita, but Heart of a Dog is also giving a magical picture of a society mid-fever.

[Scott Laing]

Two others I have read recently, which are not on this list but of course would recommend:

The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene

The Moviegoer, Walker Percy

I suspect either or both may add a perspective not yet strongly represented, though I don’t know.  Just going by the titles I have read which are more than a few.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Scott Laing.

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