William Finnegan’s Book Picks
- 1

Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell · 1938
- 2

Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 1883
- 3

The counterlife
Philip Roth · 1986
- 4

My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2011
- 5

City of Bohane
Kevin Barry · 2011
- 6

Liebling abroad
A. J. Liebling · 1981
- 7

Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Virginia Woolf · 1931
- 8

Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952
- 9

Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen · 1975