Favorites
It’s important to spread the word about the art we love. Especially for a young writer, there is no better teacher than a great book or movie, and no better classroom than the attentiveness of solitude. Here are some of Josh’s very favorite novels and films -- works to curl up with and pay the ultimate tribute to -- which is slow, patient attention.
This list is by no means comprehensive. If something you love is missing, please hit Josh up in the Contact section and let him know about it!
In no particular order:
Fiction:
War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Narcissus and Goldmun, Steppenwolf, and Demian, Herman Hesse
Beloved and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Secret History and The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Mating and Mortals, Norman Rush
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Midaq Alley, Naguib Mafhouz
Malgudi Days, R. K. Narayan
Middlemarch, George Eliot
I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves
God Dies By the Nile, Nawal El Saadawi
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
The Plague and The Stranger, Albert Camus
Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I Lay Dying and The Collected Stories, William Faulkner
The Road and Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante
The Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
Shakespeare's plays (especially Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale)
The Collected Stories, Anton Chekhov (especially “Peasants,” “The Darling,” “Gusev,” “Gooseberries,” “In the Ravine,” and “The Lady with the Dog”)
Short stories by Alice Munro, Stuart Dybek, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Italo Calvino, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and many many more
Poetry by John Keats, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rumi, W.S. Merwyn, Percy Shelley, John Donne, Wislawa Szymborska, Tim Donnelly
And although it’s not fiction: The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
This list is by no means comprehensive. If something you love is missing, please hit Josh up in the Contact section and let him know about it!
In no particular order:
Fiction:
War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Narcissus and Goldmun, Steppenwolf, and Demian, Herman Hesse
Beloved and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Pather Panchali, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel
A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
The Secret History and The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih
The Invisible Bridge, Julie Orringer
Mating and Mortals, Norman Rush
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Disgrace, Waiting for the Barbarians, and Life & Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook and Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart
The Ask, Sam Lipsyte
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Midaq Alley, Naguib Mafhouz
Malgudi Days, R. K. Narayan
Middlemarch, George Eliot
I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Robert Graves
God Dies By the Nile, Nawal El Saadawi
Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
The Plague and The Stranger, Albert Camus
Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
As I Lay Dying and The Collected Stories, William Faulkner
The Road and Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Snow, Orhan Pamuk
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
The Neapolitan Novels, Elena Ferrante
The Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
Shakespeare's plays (especially Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale)
The Collected Stories, Anton Chekhov (especially “Peasants,” “The Darling,” “Gusev,” “Gooseberries,” “In the Ravine,” and “The Lady with the Dog”)
Short stories by Alice Munro, Stuart Dybek, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Italo Calvino, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, and many many more
Poetry by John Keats, William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rumi, W.S. Merwyn, Percy Shelley, John Donne, Wislawa Szymborska, Tim Donnelly
And although it’s not fiction: The Gift, by Lewis Hyde
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Film:
The Mission Breathless In the Mood for Love 2046 Moonlight The Florida Project The Godfather, Parts I and II The Lord of the Rings Breaking the Waves The Lives of Others A Prophet Taxi Driver Tree of Life Red, White, Blue There Will Be Blood Pulp Fiction Annie Hall The Intouchables Little Children Clerks The English Patient Gone with the Wind Fanny and Alexander Black Swan Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid The Shawshank Redemption Treasure of the Sierra Madre Unforgiven Apocalypse Now 2001 Barry Lyndon Star Wars, Parts IV and V Talk to Her Amadeus Pan’s Labyrinth Winter Light Dr. Strangelove The Searchers Raiders of the Lost Ark |
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