Joerg Haeske, author of Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, shares his top ten list, in no particular order:
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums (a tough one to choose between that and On The Road, but it shows him at his best and what is probably the best time of his life – I often wonder what could have happened to him had he stayed closer to Gary Snyder and his more moderate influence)
J.D. Salinger : The Catcher In The Rye
John Steinbeck : East Of Eden (probably the best book in terms of writing style and content I have ever read)
Sherman Alexie : The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
John Fante : Bandini Quartet (Wait Until Spring, Bandini; The Road to Los Angeles; Ask the Dust; Dreams from Bunker Hill)
Mark Twain : Life On The Mississippi
Cormac McCarthy : Suttree
Hanif Kureishi : The Buddha Of Suburbia
Jonathan Coe : The Rain Before It Falls
Richard Price : Lush Life
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