Books Recommended by David Sedaris
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
Stories
Tobias Wolff
Source: "I have to be [this author's] biggest fan. Really, I would fight someone. If someone came in here and said 'I'm his biggest fan,' I would fight that person and I would win." - David Sedaris
The White Album
Essays
Joan Didion
Source: "I can look back through my diary and I can tell when I discovered [this author] because all of a sudden I'm writing like [her]." - David Sedaris
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
Source: "I remember I read [this book] because it was something that the better English class read in high school." - David Sedaris
Is There No Place on Earth for Me
Susan Sheehan
Source: "It was about a young schizophrenic woman named Sylvia Frumkin who lived in the Bronx with her family." - David Sedaris
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Stories
Raymond Carver
Source: "I just remember the excitement that I felt when I got [this book] from the library." - David Sedaris
Homesick for Another World
Stories
Ottessa Moshfegh
Source: "I cannot remember the last time I laughed that hard at a book." - David Sedaris
The Traveling Feast
On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes
Rick Bass
Source: "[The author] writes about nature like nobody else." - David Sedaris
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