gleaned from a lifetime of reading.
Peter S. Beagle | The Last Unicorn
Jorge Luis Borges | stories
John Buchan | The Thirty-Nine Steps
Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange
Albert Camus | The Stranger
Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White,
The Moonstone
Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities
Anthony Doerr | All the Light
We Cannot See
Arthur Conan Doyle | stories,
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lord Dunsany | The King
of Elfland’s Daughter
Dent-de-Lion du Midi | The Poisoned Door
Charles Frazier | Cold Mountain
Jean Giono | The Man Who Planted Trees
Jeremias Gotthelf | The Black Spider
Hella S. Haasse | In a Dark Wood Wandering
Knut Hamsun | Hunger,
The Growth of the Soil
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter
Seamus Heaney | Beowulf
Hermann Hesse | Narcissus and Goldmund,
Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game
Russell Hoban | Riddley Walker
Eowyn Ivey | The Snow Child
Johannes V. Jensen | The Fall of the King
Franz Kafka | Metamorphosis
Heinrich von Kleist | stories
Jerzy Kosinski | The Painted Bird
C.S. Lewis | Till We Have Faces
Janet Lewis | The Trial of Soren Qvist,
The Wife of Martin Guerre
David Lindsay | A Voyage to Arcturus
Thomas Mann | The Holy Sinner
Sándor Márai | Embers
W. Somerset Maugham | stories,
Up at the Villa, Of Human Bondage
Robert Merle | The Brethren
Harry Mulisch | The Assault,
The Discovery of Heaven
Edgar Allan Poe | stories
Joseph Roth | The Radetzky March
JD Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye
Jose Saramago | The Double
Issac Bashevis Singer | stories,
The King of the Fields
Art Spiegelman | MAUS
Robert Louis Stevenson | stories,
The Black Arrow, Kidnapped
Patrick Suskind | Perfume:
The Story of a Murderer
J.R.R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings,
The Hobbit
Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse Five
Lynn Ward | Madman’s Drum
Elie Wiesel | Night
Oscar Wilde | stories,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Carlos Ruiz Zafón | The Shadow
of the Wind
Markus Zusak | The Book Thief