Mr. Roesch’s Big List of Books You Should Drop Everything You’re Doing and Read Right Now!
Reading is one of life's most essential activities. The more you read, the more you will improve in virtually all aspects of life. Here's some books I've read that you might enjoy.
(These are in no particular order)
1. The New York Trilogy; The Book of Illusions—Paul Auster
2. Drop City; Budding Prospects—T.C. Boyle
3. Crime and Punishment; The Brothers Karamazov—Fydor Dostoyevsky
4. The Namesake; Interpreter of Maladies—Jhumpa Lahiri
5. The Magus; The Collector—John Fowles
6. The World According to Garp; The Hotel New Hampshire—John Irving
7. The Spenser Novels of Robert B. Parker (There are close to 40—Read the early ones first)
8. Wait Until Spring, Bandini; Ask The Dust—John Fante
9. The Stand; The Green Mile; Misery; Different Seasons; The Shining; Everything’s Eventual; The Gunslinger (7 Book Series)—Stephen King
10. The Brothers K—David James Duncan
11. Consider the Lobster; A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again—David Foster Wallace
12. Wonder Boys; Werewolves in Their Youth; The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay—Michael Chabon
13. The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov
14. Fahrenheit 451—Ray Bradbury
15. Watchmen—Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
16. The Grapes of Wrath; Tavels With Charley; Of Mice and Men—John Steinbeck
17. Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
18. Go Tell it On the Mountain; Another Country—James Baldwin
19. Life of Pi—Yann Martel
20. Reading Like a Writer—Francine Prose
21. A Moveable Feast; The Sun Also Rises; The Collected Short Stories; For Whom The Bell Tolls; Old Man and the Sea—Ernest Hemingway
22. Nine Stories; Catcher in the Rye—J.D. Salinger
23. Call of the Wild—Jack London
24. The Things They Carried—Tim O’Brien
25. But Beautiful—Geoff Dyer
26. Naked; Me Talk Pretty One Day—David Sedaris
27. The Great Gatsby; Collected Short Stories—F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Bluebeard; Slaughterhouse Five; Breakfast of Champions—Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Metamorphosis and other stories—Franz Kafka
30. The Color Purple—Alice Walker
31. Middlesex—Geoffrey Eugenides
32. In the Heart of The Sea—Nathaniel Philbrick
33. A Walk in the Woods—Bill Bryson
34. Heat—Bill Buford
35. The Good Earth—Pearl. S. Buck
36. The Ghost Writer—Philip Roth
37. Into the Wild—Jon Krakauer
38. The Elements of Style—Strunk and White
39. Great Expectations—Charles Dickens
40. Atonement; Saturday—Ian McEwan
41. Straight Man; Empire Falls—Richard Russo
42. The Stranger—Albert Camus
43. On The Road; The Dharma Bums—Jack Kerouac
44. The Making of a Chef; The Soul of a Chef—Michael Ruhlman
45. The Rabbit Books—John Updike
46. Boy; James and the Giant Peach; Matilda—Roald Dahl
47. Walden—Henry David Thoreau
48. Sailing Alone Around the Room—Billy Collins
49. The Last American Man—Elizabeth Gilbert
50. The Bluest Eye; Beloved—Toni Morrison
51. Moby Dick—Herman Melville
52. The Thing About Life is That Someday You’ll Be Dead—David Shields
53. Something is Out There—Richard Bausch
54. Train Dreams—Denis Johnson
