Top 10 Must-Reads

Let’s make a meme-ory! If I had to choose 10 books to recommend to someone as representatives of my personal favorite reads, it’d look a little something like this (today, at least):

Fool on the Hill by Matt Ruff
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
La Perdida by Jessica Abel
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning by Jonathan Mahler
Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Unsettling America by Maria Mazziotti Gillan (editor)
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime by Willie Perdomo

A little something for every taste there, from crime fiction, horror and [kinda literary] fantasy to autobiography and history (fictional and real, in both cases) to poetry and comics. Funny enough, though it’s purposefully in alphabetical order, the list begins and ends with poetry, a metaphor for something, perhaps? (ETA: What’s the metaphor for dropping the main title for one of the books you consider among your absolute favorites? D’oh!)

What are your Top 10 Must-Reads?

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Written by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is the Chief Content Officer for LibraryPass, and former publisher & marketing director for Writer’s Digest. Previously, he was also project lead for the Panorama Project; director, content strategy & audience development for Library Journal & School Library Journal; and founding director of programming & business development for the original Digital Book World.