A starting list of my favorite fiction published in the last 60 years
Send your suggestions...these are some of mine: To Kill a Mockingbird Catch-22-- Joseph Heller Cloudsplitter --Russell Banks--you think your father was strict? Try living up to this one! Sometimes a Great Notion-- Ken Kesey A Prayer for Owen Meaney-- John Irving. For pure humor in the face of dire pain, it's almost impossible to match Irving-- Garp still stands up there in the thin atmosphere of heroic laughter too) Sacred Hunger --Barry Unsworth Fall on Your Knees-- Ann-Marie MacDonald--you don't get multi-generational drama richer than this--even better than Sometimes a Great Notion) The Shipping News --Annie Proulx (and don't miss Wyoming Stories) Middlesex-- Jeffrey Eugenides Mother Night --Kurt Vonnegut Richard Ford--both the four novels of the Frank Bascombe series, and Rock Springs The Life Before Us-- Romain Gary (in translation from the French--also called "Madame Rosa" in literature and film) Corelli's Mandolin (1994) -- Louis de