Related Books:
There were a few readers among the sleepyheads on the train this morning. I have to say, I’m impressed with my fellow readers this morning for the caliber of the books they were reading. Here’s what I spotted:
- Black Boy by Richard Wright (I read this book in high school. Still one of my favorites.)
- Sabbath’s Theatre by Philip Roth (One of the books that made The Prizewinners list I put together last month.)
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Way of the Flesh by Samuel Butler (V.S. Pritchett called it “one of the time-bombs of literature.”)
- Granta 91: Wish You Were Here (I love Granta. This issue includes Ismail Kadare, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Keneally and James Lasdun.)
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt (For all the classicists out there.)
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- And a couple of bestsellers:
- Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
