<![CDATA[What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read?]]> For me it would be Mark Helprin's A Soldier of the Great War.

A description from Amazon: "On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker, spinning a remarkable tale of heart-stopping escapes, of loves unrequited and won, of madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is his most miraculous and terrible adventure, the Great War: a surreal parade of horrors that devastated and defined Alessandro, yet enabled him to experience fully the magic and beauty of the absurd human comedy called life."

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/65070/what-is-the-best-little-known-novel-you-ever-readRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 11:29:59 GMTSat, 20 Aug 2022 10:10:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Thu, 08 May 2025 18:19:33 GMT]]> The Harvard Classics.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1156359https://brownsboard.com/post/1156359Thu, 08 May 2025 18:19:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:00:10 GMT]]> Galapogos by Kurt Vonnegut!... highly detailed , great book...

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1153480https://brownsboard.com/post/1153480Sat, 29 Mar 2025 15:00:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:14:54 GMT]]> Got another to add to this because it is so accurate with the real history of Comancheria in Texas following the Civil War. But it's a novel whose two protagonists are a Comanche Indian and a Buffalo Soldier (black ex-slave) of the 10th Cavalry all-black enlisted with white officers. The name  of it is The Wolf and the Buffalo by Elmer Kelton, TCU Press 1980 and 1986. Naturally enough they are on either side of the fight by the US Army to rein in the Comanches to reservations in Oklahoma from their final days living free around the southern buffalo herd of the Texas Panhandle & western Oklahoma down to San Angelo. It is thoroughly engrossing with excellent character development throughout. It is used in college classes on the history of the American west.

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@westside-steve said:

I remember the movie when I was a kid. Honestly did not remember that it was a book. Of course I was born in 1952 so

WSS

i was like 6 or 7 when i watched the movie only thing i remember about it was that it gave me nightmares

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1057669https://brownsboard.com/post/1057669Mon, 05 Sep 2022 15:53:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:47:21 GMT]]> Nightmare Alley. 1946 or 47. Love the movie love the book loved the remake.

WSS

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@syd said:

the day of the triffids written in 1951 by john wyndham

more than likely this was the first ever sci-fi horror book ever written

I remember the movie when I was a kid. Honestly did not remember that it was a book. Of course I was born in 1952 so

WSS

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1057631https://brownsboard.com/post/1057631Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:44:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Sun, 28 Aug 2022 20:41:47 GMT]]> Wool

Hugh Howey

Wool: Howey, Hugh: 9781476733951: Amazon.com: Books

Yer welcome?

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@diehardbrownsfan1 said:

'The Donkey and the pond' by Cal date unknown.......

Come on, man, it was a spring, not a pond.

How about my funny medieval story I haven't posted in a long time?

I was going to say...

the real adventure novel I wrote.

Haven't tried to get it published yet. I think it needs some work.

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@browns149 said:

Howard Stern’s last book. It is excerpts from his years of interviews 

It has a lot of stuff with Trump in it. Back when Trump was actually being truthful. Very interesting the points of views he had back then. 

I can't stand Stern.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1056594https://brownsboard.com/post/1056594Sat, 27 Aug 2022 22:58:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:59:46 GMT]]> Howard Stern’s last book. It is excerpts from his years of interviews 

It has a lot of stuff with Trump in it. Back when Trump was actually being truthful. Very interesting the points of views he had back then. 

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1056276https://brownsboard.com/post/1056276Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:59:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:55:13 GMT]]> 'The Donkey and the pond' by Cal date unknown.......

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/1055659https://brownsboard.com/post/1055659Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:55:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What is the Best Little Known Novel You Ever Read? on Sat, 20 Aug 2022 15:15:28 GMT]]> the day of the triffids written in 1951 by john wyndham

more than likely this was the first ever sci-fi horror book ever written

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