The Books That Haunt Us

All readers have favorites from their personal history; The Books That Haunt Us is an analysis of 18 of the authors favorite books beginning with Steinbecks Tortilla Flat 1935 up through The Tattooist of Auschwitz 2018. Other titles include: It Cant Happen Here 1935; Address Uknown 1938; Darkness at Noon 1940; Hiroshima 1946; If This is a Man 1947; McElligots Pool 1947; 1984 1949; Night 1960; Black Like Me 1960; Eichmann in Jerusalem 1963; Slaughterhouse-Five 1969; The Plot Against America 2004; I Heard You Paint Houses 2004;Two are less widely known: A Desert Daughters Odyssey 2000 and A Book of Great Worth 2012. The Woman Who Could Not Die 1938 is now impossible to find but was a major influence for George Orwells 1984. Also contains the remarkable backstory of the 10 years before John Howard Griffin became black for Black Like Me which became an instant American classic. The backstory is not mentioned in Black Like Me.