Finishing Simon van Booy’s “Everything Beautiful Began After” reminded me of those books throughout life that once you begin you don’t finish without swallowing…browsing my shelves I remembered a few (and I’m usually reading over 20 at a time, so if one demands the patience of the others it has some driving pulse something in me can’t ignore)…

“If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things” by Jon McGregor

“The Trick is to Keep Breathing” by Janice Galloway

“Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov

“Beatrice and Virgil” by Yann Martel

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy

“Possession” by A.S. Byatt

“Notes from the Underground” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Dust” Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

“Impossible Object” by Nicholas Mosley

“Entrance to Porlock” and “Final Beast” by Frederick Buechner

keep thinking of them!  those startling ones that catch you off guard!

“Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing” Helene Cixous

“On Love” Alain de Botton

“To Whom it May Concern” Raymond Federman

“The Way through Doors” & “The Curfew” Jesse Ball

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what books don’t allow you to put them down?