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A B Yehoshua's Reading List

The novelist, playwright and author, most recently, of “The Extra,” avoids suspense and sci-fi: “Very possibly I am missing out on important genres. But it’s too late to change my conservatism.”

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By the Book: A B Yehoshua (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-06-16).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence · Buy on Amazon
"Reading Lawrence, I am amazed and edified by the raw emotional intensity of his characters."
Cover of In Search of Lost Time
Cover of In Search of Lost Time
Cover of Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
James Joyce · Buy on Amazon
"James Joyce's "The Dead," the longest story in his marvelous "Dubliners," brings tears to one's eyes precisely because the revelation at the end is unexpected yet very believable."
William Faulkner · Buy on Amazon
"I still marvel at its genius for compression. Faulkner manages to pack 40 years of a town's history into a short story."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon
"I'm fascinated by Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment." The novel has aspects of detective fiction but is ultimately a work of profound morality."
Edmondo De Amicis · Buy on Amazon
"Each in its way shaped my literary world and instilled the urge to do my own writing."
Talbot Baines Reed · Buy on Amazon
"an amusing account of boarding-school life that taught me the importance of wit and humor in literature."
S. Y. Agnon · Buy on Amazon
"He died in 1970, but his influence on Israeli literature continues to grow."
Cover of A Savage War of Peace
Alistair Horne · Buy on Amazon
"about the French colonial war in Algeria, a terrible war with aspects that parallel the conflict he persists in continuing with the Palestinians."

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