John Irving’s Book Picks
- 1

The Scarlett Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1800
- 2

Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1947
- 3

The mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy · 1800
- 4

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
- 5

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens · 1850
- 6

Death in Venice
Thomas Mann · 1925
- 7

Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1956
- 8

The tin drum
Günter Grass · 1959
- 9

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1971