My Favorite Ten Fiction Books

Leonardo Sciascia

Someone I know recently posted on Facebook a list of her top ten books. Since nonfiction did not make her cut, I'm assuming she kept the list limited to works that required little or no fact checking. (I'm not counting litigation considerations in this case.)

Well, I'm going to post my ten here, while fully acknowledging I could easily add another ten, ten times over:

• Day of the Owl/Leonardo Sciascia
• Creation/Gore Vidal
• The High Window/Raymond Chandler
• Cotton Comes to Harlem/Chester Himes
• Libra/Don DeLillo
• The Idiot/Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Tropic of Cancer/Henry Miller
• The Plague/Albert Camus
• Scoop/Evelyn Waugh
• Flight to Canada/Ishmael Reed