My Top-10 Favorite Novels

Good writing starts with great reading. Here’s the top-10 novels that inspire and inform my writing:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

The General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

What are your favorites? Which do you consider ‘must reads’ for aspiring authors?