• New bohemian classics

    The author of "Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America" picks five must-reads for a new generation.
  • Outskirts of the fin de siècle

    Five underappreciated novels from the last time the century turned.
  • Out of this world

    A pioneering playwright and director chooses five novels of panoramic scope and world-shattering perspective.
  • Mixing it up

    The author of "Flesh Guitar" celebrates five great cocktail novels.
  • Lyrical

    The author of "White Oleander" picks four novels and one memoir that read like poetry.
  • Sincerely ours

    The author of "Dewey Defeats Truman" selects five great collections of letters.
  • Word doctor

    A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
  • Black comedy

    The author of "The Last Life" picks five favorite books to make you laugh and cringe.
  • One-handed reading

    Salon's resident sexpert picks five books that taught her what "dirty" meant.
  • Books to snack on

    The author of "Wonder Boys" selects a literary menu for blocked writers.
  • Men at extremes

    The author of "Bad Behavior" picks five tales of guys at the end of their ropes.
  • Who's screwing who

    The author of "The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil" picks five great novels about exploitation.
  • Funny pages

    The deadline poet and author of "The Tummy Trilogy" picks five books that made him laugh.
  • Strictly Southern

    The author of "Sophie's Choice" picks five great contemporary Southern novels.
  • Once upon a time in Greece

    A tale of ruins and revelers and Aegean nights -- and the way things fit together in time and space.
  • Screened out

    The author of "Motherless Brooklyn" spotlights five terrific novels overshadowed by their film versions.
  • It wasn't funny at the time

    Lonely Planet's new anthology presents an I'm-glad-that-wasn't-me collection of delightful disasters.
  • Rockets' red glare

    The author of "Dog Soldiers" picks five great contemporary war novels.
  • Pitch black

    The author of "The Terrible Twos" picks five African-American novels that refuse to behave.
  • Primal loss

    The author of "Black Tickets" picks six powerful books on the first wounds of childhood.
  • In the family way

    As a new anthology shows, traveling en famille delivers its own lessons and rewards; you just have to use a different map.
  • The docu-novel

    The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
  • Writers We Love: Pico Iyer

    This world-wanderer masterfully tracks the intricacies of the dance of East and West.
  • Guided tours of dystopia

    The author of "Birds of America" selects five favorite novels about the future.
  • Fiction, 9 to 5

    The author of "Black Dogs" and "Enduring Love" picks five favorite novels about work.
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