I’ve been asked to recommend a list of books. Tall order. This list could change next week or even later today. But these fifteen have had a lasting impression. Disclosure: I published three and two others are written by good friends.
The Adventures of Augie March (1953)/Saul Bellow
Herzog (1964)/Saul Bellow
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968)/Joan Didion
I Shall Not Be Moved (1991)/Maya Angelou
Despair (1965, English translation)/Vladimir Nabokov
The Posthumous Man (2012)/Jake Hinkson
The Age of Reason/Thomas Paine (published in three parts: 1794, 1795, and 1807)
Monte Walsh (1963)/Jack Schaefer
Donnybrook (2013)/Frank Bill
American Gods (2001)/Neil Gaiman
The Little Boy Inside and Other Stories (2013)/Glenn Gray
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)/Patricia Highsmith
The Girls of Bunker Pines (2014) /Garnett Elliott
The Haunting of Hill House (1959)/Shirley Jackson
All Those Hungry Mouths (2015)/Keith Rawson
3 comments:
Excellent list. I've got a number of these still to read.
I still have to read Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov. Not long ago, I read a few short stories by Shirley Jackson. There is a certain intensity in her prose.
A fine list.
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