Earlier this week, we published Stifel Nicolaus Managing Director Dave Lutz' annual list of books recommended by traders.
Every year, Lutz polls his clientele and ask them what books they like. He then sends out a big list to give everyone fresh ideas.
Now, we dig a bit deeper — and go a bit more high-brow — by pulling 15 classic novels that appear on the list.
Some you probably haven't read since high school but are always worth revisiting.
Others have maybe always been on your list.
If so, here's a great excuse to finally get around to them.
Coming Up For Air
Author: George Orwell
Amazon Description: "George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond recognition, and the principal event of his holiday is an accidental bombing by the RAF."
Year published: 1939
Infinite Jest
Author: David Foster Wallace
Amazon Description: "A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction,Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are."
Year published: 1996
Blindness
Author: Jose Saramago
Amazon Description: "A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation and a vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century, Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayal of man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimately exhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will to survive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature."
Year published: 1997
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