Which of these books should we read befo...

The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas by Rick Harsch

https://amzn.to/4cLSWkB

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781953409072

Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

https://amzn.to/3SGr8bL

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250781253

The Left hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Leguin

https://amzn.to/4ik2WCL

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441478125

Neuromancer by William Gibson

https://amzn.to/46z0xRg

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780441007462

Cowboy Graves by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4bXovIc

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780735222908

Distant Star by Roberto Bolano

https://amzn.to/4737WZ9

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781250352194

How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira

https://amzn.to/4yMpJzW

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811216319

Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers

https://amzn.to/3UYS3Am

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781613743416

No Immediate Danger by William T. Vollmann

https://amzn.to/3T9gnig

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780399563515

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

https://amzn.to/4o9sCpm

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140186390

Out of the Rain by J Malcom Garcia

https://amzn.to/4AfA8pj

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781644213865

The Case Worker by George Konrad (I couldn’t find an English translation of this)

Houses by Borislav Pekic

https://amzn.to/4hh2syT

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781590179475

Tarantula by Roberto Halfon

https://amzn.to/3SMWiyo

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781954276567

Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker

https://amzn.to/4hxKg5i

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802128355

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

https://amzn.to/4ABoo0D

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572178

Ubik by Philip K Dick

https://amzn.to/4pCqh85

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780547572291

Beloved by Toni Morrison

https://amzn.to/4f081jE

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033416

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781400033423

https://amzn.to/49mWkAy

Five by Cesar Aira

https://amzn.to/4y4mzrg

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780811232364

The White Album by Joan Didion

https://amzn.to/4yHttT5

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374532079

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

https://amzn.to/4izXY8W

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374531386

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

https://amzn.to/4rk9SWG

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780374529949

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

https://amzn.to/3IAFncI

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780143039945

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

https://amzn.to/4it2CCk

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780802160935

Burr by Gore Vidal

https://amzn.to/4xv4od6

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780375708732

Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal

https://amzn.to/4bWs5TN

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780525566502

The Calf by Leif Hoghaug

https://amzn.to/4mO9n3o

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

https://amzn.to/4yeNXDm

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679728894

Fridays at Enrico’s by Don Carpenter

https://amzn.to/4lQFsIF

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781619025400

O Pioneers! By Willa Cather

https://amzn.to/4AfMkq5

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780679743620

My Antonia by Willa Cather

https://amzn.to/4haoyCT

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780140187649

Reinhardt’s Garden by Mark Haber

https://amzn.to/4j8ZMWn

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781566895620

Nachzehrer by Nelson Keane

https://amzn.to/3VlchV3

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9781998122097

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

https://amzn.to/41109ci

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780385334204

With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires by Willis Barnstone

https://amzn.to/4hbAww2

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

https://amzn.to/4yGNCsm

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780553274325

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

https://amzn.to/3SKltkU

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780060934347

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

https://amzn.to/3V27UOA

https://bookshop.org/a/103053/9780316074292