Twenty Important Books I Haven’t Read (a couple of which I almost certainly never will)
(by request, and alphabetically by author)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Plague by Albert Camus
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Life: A User’s Manual by Georges Perec
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Native Son by Richard Wright
— March 27, 2021