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.