Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this episode, I share my top 10 novels (including Lolita, 2666, and Ulysses). Join my Patreon to help shape future Good Art Bad Art episodes: patreon.com/c/gregharradine

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Chapters:
1:05 — Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
2:05 — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
3:15 — Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
4:05 — Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
4:58 — The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
5:58 — 2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
7:12 — Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
8:04 — Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
9:03 — War and War (László Krasznahorkai)
10:08 — Ulysses (James Joyce)

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