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Below is American artist William Wegmans list.

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His current exhibit is showing at theShelburne Museumin Vermont until October 20.

This was Dickenss favorite book, and mine, too.

Charles and I have a lot in common.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

So funny in the beginning but not in the end.

Do not read the back copy.

It is a 600-page book with all the major plot points given away in this one paragraph.

Green Henry, by Gottfried Keller

A perfect book from beginning to end.

The characters, the story, the shape of it all.

I have read and reread this book many times.

After the Banquet, by Yukio Mishima

I will read it again.

And then I will read it again.

I forget what its about, but the next time I read it I will know.

Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald

Its funny and strange.

Before readingDead Souls, I read NabokovsNikolai Gogol.I found it essential.

The description of a tennis game is my favorite of these brilliant stories.

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol

Nature described in sumptuous detail.

The most boring book ever written.

A masterpiece

A sons memoir of his father unwittingly more revealing about the son than the father.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, by Vladimir Nabokov

I love the cover of the edition.

A painting by Eakins.

An epic saga of the end of a great civilization.

Indian Summer, by Adalbert Stifter

You never want it to end.

Much weirder than I remembered from high school.

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