Books Recommended By B.R. Myers
In A Reader's Manifesto, Myers presents these novels as examples of clear, concise literary style:
- To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf.
- Those Barren Leaves, by Aldous Huxley.
- The Adventures of Augie March and The Victim (novel), by Saul Bellow.
- The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil.
- Le Père Goriot, Illusions perdues, and La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac.
- The Orchard Keeper, by Cormac McCarthy.
- The Key to Rebecca, by Ken Follett.
- Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville.
- Hondo, by Louis L'Amour.
- Malone Dies, by Samuel Beckett.
- Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
- A Dark Night's Passing and At Kinosaki, by Naoya Shiga.
- What Makes Sammy Run?, by Budd Schulberg.
- Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara.
- Hangover Square, by Patrick Hamilton (dramatist).
- The Second Curtain, by Roy Fuller.
- Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake.
- Things as They Are or The Adventures of Caleb Williams, by William Godwin.
- The Waiting Years, by Fumiko Enchi.
- The Wild Geese (novel), by Mori Ōgai.
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