Here's my rough cannon. Mostly short fiction or shorter novels. I have a short attention span, so I tend to read shorter prose. I'II leave War and Peace and Don Quixote for my next life. Who has time for a work like Ulysses or Don Delillo's Underworld anyway?
J.D. Salinger--The Catcher and the Rye, Nine Stories.
Leo Tolstoy--The Death of Ivan Ilych.
James Joyce--A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Franz Kafka--all his short stuff.
Herm Melville--Bartleby and Benito Cereno.
Anton Chekhov--one of the greatest short story writers ever.
Fitzgerald--The Great Gatsby, and many short stories.
Raymond Carver---American master.
Albert Camus--the plague and the Stranger.
Flannery O'Connor--American master.
Edgar Allen Poe---one of my favorites.
I love books and I love literature and I love stories of the torn and tragic, of the soul at loose ends......................The first ten cantos in The Inferno of Dante are a true feat of the human mind.
King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
Moby #^&#^&#^&#^&.............................................. ..............
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