Quick! If you had to name five must-read novels, what would they be? What comes to mind immediately?
One of my Gotham students asked me to name just five. Impossible! But I tried.
I said:
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner
Then I said, Light on Snow by Anita Shreve comes before Good Grief
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Then I think I changed it to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)
And now I can think of dozens more that are favorites.
So, name the first five favorite books that come to mind.
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How about five favorites TONIGHT (subject to change without notice)...
1.) A Trip To The Stars - Nicholas Christopher
2.) The Forgetting Room - Nick Bantock
3.) Fluke - Christopher Moore
4.) Pigs In Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
5.) Mrs. Dalloway - Virgina Woolf
in no particular order (except for the first one):
Body & Soul, Frank Conroy
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Birth of the Firebringer, Meredith Ann Pierce (favorited since i was a teen. now out of print...)
1 ... The Myth of You and Me
2 ... The Book of Joe (Jonathon Tropper)
3 ... Second Helpings (
4 ... Something Borrowed
5 ... The Queen of the Big Tim (Adrianna Trigiani)
Can't remember all the authors and I always loan out my favorites so don't have them here to check. That's my list for right now. I did love Good Grief and Light on Snow was okay.
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