My friend, Courtney, challenged me to post ten books on FB that I love. I have listed them here in one spot for inquisitive readers. But wait, there’s more. There’s always more; I’ve listed some notable runners up!
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, by Peter Handke
The Lover, by Marguerite Duras
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Last Nights of Paris, by Philippe Soupault
A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick
The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño
Ask the Dust, by John Fante
Rivethead, by Ben Hamper
Emerald Ice, by Diane Wakoski
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil De Grasse Tyson
Some notables (these books could just as easily have been in the above list…):
The Plague, by Albert Camus
The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy
Franny and Zooey, by J D Salinger
The Selected Poems of Frank O’Hara, edited by Donald Allen
Less Than Zero, by Brett Easton Ellis
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, stories by Raymond Carver
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Alan Sillitoe
Honky, by Dalton Conley
Prozac Nation, by Elizabeth Wurtzel
No One Belongs Here More Than You, stories by Miranda July
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., by Robert Coover
Jillian, by Halle Butler
Eat When You Feel Sad, by Zachary German
Before Night Falls, by Reinaldo Arenas
Reservation Blues, by Sherman Alexie
Tulsa Kid, by Ron Padgett
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
So, yeah, I could go on and on…the above lists leave out hundreds of authors and do not really even begin to scratch the surface.
Photo of Aaron not reading.