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Meg Wolitzer
This collection, which includes the masterpiece “The Dead,” is sweeping as well as specific about all the lives within it. Favorites include the much-read “Araby," and also the perfect, subtle, devastating short-short, “Clay.”
View Meg Wolitzer's Top 10 Favorite BooksSharon Horgan
As a young student living in Dublin, I always thought it vaguely pretentious that I should be reading Joyce. But I couldn’t even begin to start with “Ulysses,” and then I discovered “Dubliners,” and thought, this is perfect, this is my kind of thing: An evocative but simple style of writing. I was so delighted for myself: “I’ve read Joyce, I can tick that off my list of smart things I should be doing.” It was just such a surprise to find it accessible.
View Sharon Horgan's Top 10 Favorite BooksJesse Peretz
I go back to “Dubliners,” every few years to re-experience Joyce’s gorgeous use of the English language. These stories were one of the first things I read that made me understand the power of words (and punctuation)!
View Jesse Peretz's Top 10 Favorite BooksMeg Wolitzer
This collection, which includes the masterpiece “The Dead,” is sweeping as well as specific about all the lives within it. Favorites include the much-read “Araby," and also the perfect, subtle, devastating short-short, “Clay.”
View Meg Wolitzer's Top 10 Favorite Books