Andrew Klavan

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I would say no.

Probably Pride and Prejudice or Emma is her most essential book.

A much better book about adultery is Anna Karenina which is warm and alive and vibrant.

Probably Pride and Prejudice or Emma is her most essential book.

read Rebecca and read her short stories because they are great.

I think it's a great book.

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky is not one of his essential books.

The Castle by Franz Kafka, that's not the book I I say of his that's essential.

it's Confederacy of Dunces is entertaining and kind of conservative and that's why people hate it.

the Minority Report uh by Philip K. Dick.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, uh, I I think it's an excellent book.

However, I have to say it's essential if you want to understand European literature cuz it's a great great piece of work.

I'd say The Trial is an essential book, essential to the modern world.

The Quiet American by Graham Greene, excellent novel, essential, no.

His book The Razor's Edge is essential. It's a great book.

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, excellent novel, not essential.

Bartleby the Scriber, Herman Melville, 1853. A brilli story.

Another Country by James Baldwin, I'm going to skip it.

most dangerous game if you like um adventure stories it's the classic adventure story

uh James Joyce the dead also a wonderful story

Uh if you go back to his earliest collections uh one of them I think is called Men Without Women.

The Swimmer by John Chver. Also a good story. A B story 1964 that was made into a Bert Lancaster.

Hills like white elephants by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway uh I think his greatest work is in his short work. That is not one of my favorite of his stories. I'll give it a B.

The Necklace by Gita Mopasaw. Gita Mopaw is a wonderful writer. People don't read him as much as they used to, but I that's a great story.