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In Search of Lost Time (Swann's Way)

by Marcel Proust

Novel · #500 of 500

Why here in the reading order: the last book of all 500. A novel about memory, time, and an entire life finally understood by looking back on it — there wasn't a better way to close a project built on exactly that.

Connects to: Psychology — Memory, consciousness, time

On 4 of the 9 source lists: Bok, G:Best, G:Readers, LeMonde