Wally Lamb's Reading List

"Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet evokes Elizabethan England and beautifully depicts the complexities of a family's grief for a deceased child."

"Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces."

"John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers"

"Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow"

"My American Lit sophomores moaned and groaned their way through the first hundred pages of The Grapes of Wrath, but Steinbeck won them over in the end."

"Kathy Wang's The Satisfaction Cafe, to my wife, Christine. I thought she'd love it. She did."