This is an absolutely unfair question—who can choose just one?! As I said before, I just adore The Great Gatsby. I also love The Odyssey, E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. I could keep going…