Booking Through Thursday – Huh?
Posted on January 24, 2008 in Books
What’s your favorite book that nobody else has heard of? You know, not Little Women or Huckleberry Finn, not the latest best-seller . . . whether they’ve read them or not, everybody “knows†those books. I’m talking about the best book that, when you tell people that you love it, they go, “Huh? Never heard of it?†– BTT
I am really quite predictable since I love classics and books most people have heard of. I think The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa is simply wonderful but not totally unknown. A lot of people I know don’t really get into graphic novels so they aren’t aware of Neil Gaiman’s work or Sandman. Speaking of graphic novels, this one counts, but I forget to add it to my GN challenge recs: Griffin and Sabine Trilogy by Nick Bantock. In nonfiction, I love a lot of memoirs and travel books such as Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik and Blue Latitudes: Boldy Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz.
In a lot of cases, while some well read people on the blogsophere or bibliophiles have heard of books, I have a lot of friends who are not big readers and will go “Huh?” when I say I like Jose Saramago, Milan Kundera, Neil Gaiman, etc.
I haven’t read Gaiman yet but I’m going to!
I am loving Gaiman!
“Huh?”
I don’t believe it, I just started The Leopard yesterday! Until recently it would have been a “huh?” for me as well, but some of my more sophisticated reading friends highly recommended it. It was quite a coincidence to read about it here!
I haven’t read The Leopard but the movie is astonishing.
Neil Gaiman’s name keeps coming up. I’ll definitely have to put a star by his name when I go to find a new book.
I’ve got the Leopard on my shelf, one copy in English, one in Italian for my next bilingual reading. I haven’t heard of the other books you mention.