Marlon James’s Book Picks

Summer Lightning, Shame, Song of Solomon and 7 more books selected by Marlon James.

Ten books selected by Marlon James for One Grand.

Source: https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/writers/marlon-james

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

1. Summer lightning and other stories — Olive Senior
2. Shame — Salman Rushdie
3. Song of Solomon — Toni Morrison
4. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
5. Tom Jones — Henry Fielding
6. Dogeaters — Jessica Hagedorn
7. The Autumn of the Patriarch — Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
8. Palomar — Gilbert Hernandez
9. Epic traditions of Africa — Stephen Paterson Belcher
10. The Master & Margarita — Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков