In the April 23, 2007 issue of Newsweek, Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje named his five most important books ... after limiting "himself to 20th-century works and assum[ing] Faulkner, Cather and García Márquez went without saying."Read about all five titles.
Ondaatje also picked a book and panned a book using other criteria:
A classic that, on rereading, was disappointing:Ondaatje's new novel, Divisadero, is out this month.
Ideal Marriage by Dr. Th. H. Van De Velde. A marriage manual. I stole it from my mother's shelf. It was a turn-on when I was 14. It's not a turn-on at 74.
The book you care most about having your children read:
My own memoir, A Writer's Life — because I want them to know me as I see myself.
--Marshal Zeringue
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