Billy Collins's Reading List

"After closing Camus's The Stranger, I descended a changed young man."

"The last great book I read was Joyce's Ulysses, and the last great book I reread was also Joyce's Ulysses."

"it's a beautifully humorous novel-memoir about life in an imagined village in the west of Ireland. The language is a joyride; even Williams's sentence structures can be amusing."

"I prefer novels where very little happens, except everything seems to be getting worse. Jose Saramago's Blindness, for example."

"Emma Donoghue's Room."