One of his six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (2010).Read about the other entries on the list.
Sorry, this one is also very long. But Murakami is left to his own devices here, and it's a beautiful result. Some think, at 928 pages, the novel needs editing, but the looseness is why I loved it. It is a magical, heartfelt hodgepodge of speculative fiction and nostalgic melodrama. Read it when you get sick.
--Marshal Zeringue