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Underworld
by Don DeLillo
Unquestionably one of the best novels I've ever read. Underworld is overwhelming in its scope and enchanting in its command of language. Chronicling a handful of individuals' lives backwards instead of forwards through the twentieth century is such a wildly ambitious undertaking, and the fact that the quality of prose here never drops, that the novel never feels overly long despite being well over 800 pages, is just unfathomable. That second-to-last section jumping through the 50s and 60s that finds a way to tie in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Truman Capote, the Zapruder film, and even more cultural events and touchstones pushed me over the edge from respecting to absolutely adoring this work. An unqualified masterpiece, and a worthy candidate for the title of The Great American Novel.