Reddit mentions of A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)

The following are some of my favorite books that I could think of off the top of my head. Hopefully you dig the list.

• Oscar Wilde - Picture of Dorian Gray
  
• David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
  
• Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
  
• Charles Bukowski - post office
  
• Ned Vizzini - It's Kind of a Funny Story
  
• Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
  
• Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
  
• Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor
  
• Charles Bukowski - Ham on Rye
  
• Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
  
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground
  
• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  
• Voltaire - Candide
  
• Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
  
• Christopher Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
  
• Katherine Dunn - Geek Love
  
• Kitty Fitzgerald - Pigtopia
  
• Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
  
• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
  
• C. D. Payne - Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp
  
• Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
  
• Peter Conn - The Good Earth
  
• John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath
  
• Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  
• Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain
  
• Philip Roth - American Pastoral
  
• James Clavell - Shogun (The Asian Saga Chronology)
  
• Christopher Moore - A Dirty Job
  
• Yann Martel - Life of Pi
  
• Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
  
• Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
  
• Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  
• Ian McEwan - Atonement
  
• Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
  
• Jonathan Acuff - Stuff Christians Like
  
• Craig Thompson - Blankets
  
• Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
  
• Zadie Smith - White Teeth
  
• Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red
  
• Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker
  
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
  
• Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  
• John Irving - The World According to Garp
  
• John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany
  
• Stephen King - The Shining
  
• Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
  
• Franz Kafka - The Trial
  
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
  
• Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

one of my favorite books ever. excellent recommendation!

on that note, most of john irving is really fantastic: deep, researched, poignant, compelling. some others to consider (ordered by my perceived "greatness"):

• a prayer for own meany
  
• the cider house rules
  
• the fourth hand - irving's attempt at a humorous novel that wouldn't have so much of his morose signature style...he gave up about a third of the way into writing the book with that approach
  
• a widow for one year - great book, and the movie (i.e. door in the floor) is a fucking great as well...one of the most perfect roles for jeff bridges ever - 'nuff said
  
• a son of the circus

A Prayer for Owen Meany

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