This is a list of my recent favorites; add to this list any work by Herman Melville, Henry James, Richard Yates, and Paula Fox.
(Updated January 2008)
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The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher
You Can't Win by Jack Black
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Diary of a Rapist by Evan Connell
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis
I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell
FUP by Jim Dodge
Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon
A Year in Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh
The Gay Place by Billy Lee Brammer
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Pacific by Mark Helprin
Women by Charles Bukowski
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
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