Required reading.
Because I was asked: In no particular order, these are fifteen books that I’ve read and reread during certain periods of my life, that I have gone back to every year or so, books that have in one way or another influenced the way I perceive the world and consequently the way I write about it.
- Life After God, Douglas Coupland
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susannah Clarke
- V for Vendetta, Alan Moore & David Lloyd
- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon
- The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
- My Traitor’s Heart, Rian Malan
- The Sandman: Brief Lives, Neil Gaiman & Jill Thompson
- The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
- Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
- The Stand, Stephen King
- Why I Hate Saturn, Kyle Baker
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
- Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- Fear & Loathing: On The Campaign Trail ’72, Hunter S. Thompson
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