Writers: A Room of Our Own

Hi Polly,

Great topic, forever debatable. I don’t think that the antifeminist turns of A FAREWELL TO ARMS make it any less worthy of a place on this list. After all a novel is a product of its time and of the people living in it, and Hemingway’s time was not exactly a great one for feminists around the world, at least I imagine not. That said, here is my personal list, with many similarities:

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
THE STRANGER by Albert Camus
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
PEDRO PARAMO by Juan Rulfo
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by Marcel Proust

I haven’t read Toni Morrison yet, but I’m willing to bet I’ll change my list once I do.