20 Favorite Works of Fiction

Continuing the theme of the week, my twenty favorite pieces of fiction…..

1. More Die of Heartbreak. Saul Bellow
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde
3. The Road. Cormac McCarthy
4. London Fields. Martin Amis
5. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. John Le Carre.
6. Bright Lights, Big City. Jay McInerney
7. Ham on Rye. Charles Bukowski
8. A Man in Full. Tom Wolfe
9. The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen
10. This is Where I Leave You. Jonathan Tropper
11. Wonder Boys. Michael Chabon
12. Rabbit is Rich. John Updike
13. The Day of the Jackal. Frederick Forsyth
14. Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
15. Bonfire of the Vanities. Tom Wolfe
16. All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Remarque
17. Wormwood. David Levien
18. Fury. Salman Rushdie
19. Slaughterhouse Five. Kurt Vonnegut.
20. A Super Sad True Love Story. Gary Shteyngart