After the Bible and two childhood favorites
Bambi and Greased Lightning,
...here are my ten "tweeker pieces" of literature.
Novel...We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Novel...Go Tell It on the Mountain by
James Baldwin
Autobio...West With the Night by Berle
Markham
Historical fiction....Prisons
by Mary
Lee Settle
Novel....To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper
Lee
Novel....Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Novel....Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Ann Tyler
Not sure what this is...."Before the Law" (part
of The Trial) by Franz Kafka
Historical Novel....All Soul's Rising
by Madison Smart Bell
Short Story...."Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora
Welty
And a bonus for you my tweeker poet...May Swenson
"Pigeon Women," "Bleeding,"
"The Watch," etc.
Also:
The
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
more my Top 10 books: Lifetime Readings