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Posted By: Peter Kasin
21-Oct-03 - 02:53 AM
Thread Name: Brits 21 Favourite Books -- Yours?
Subject: RE: Brits 21 Favourite Books -- Yours?
Here are my favorite books, fiction and nonfiction. I agree with McGrath that choosing one favorite is pretty fruitless, but I'm a sort of list person (alltime NFL and baseball team fantasy lists, etc.).
Not in any ranking:
Fiction:
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
The Old Country, by Sholem Aleichem
Puckoon, by Spike Milligan
Our Dumb Century, by the staff of The Onion
most TinTin books
Nineteen Nineteen, by John Dos Passos
Harry Potter books
Nonfiction:
With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, by Eugene Sledge
Low Life, by Luc Sante
Sailortown, by Stan Hugill
as a matter of fact, anything by Stan Hugill
Parting The Waters: America In The King Years: 1954-63, by Taylor Branch
Local People: The Struggle For Civil Rights In Mississippi, by John Dittmer
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, by Peter Biskind
Den Of Thieves, by James B. Stewart
High Times, Hard Times, by Anita O'Day
King Of The World, by David Remnick
Up In The Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell
The Glory Of Their Times, by Lawrence S. Ritter
Truman, by David McCullough
Interpreting Our Heritage, by Freeman Tilden
Storm Landings, by Joseph Alexander
Three Lives For Mississippi, by William Bradford Huie
Great Chefs of France, by Anthony Blake and Quentin Crewe
Heaven's Banquet, by Miriam Kasin Hospodar
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, compiled by Michael Shaw
Walker Evans, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walker Evans, by James R. Mellow (biography)