The Odyssey by Homer. The mother of all stories, with the most human themes: fear of aging and death.
" Don Quixote " by Miguel de Cervantes. A book that dignifies our small attempts to behave with honor.
" Tristram Shandy " by Laurence Sterne. It opens wide the gates of fiction and invites everyone in.
" Moby-Dick " by Herman Melville. A masterpiece about our need to conquer nature even as we worship it.
" Huckleberry Finn " by Mark Twain. It makes art out of vernacular English.
A book you always return to: Ernest Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast.” It makes the reader feel young again.
A book you hope parents will read to their children: Thornton Wilder’s “The Bridge of San Luis Rey,” a fable about the two questions that all children ask: why are we here and why must we leave?
