Garrison Keillor's most important books

Garrison Keillor is the author of Pontoon and four other Lake Wobegon novel.

He recently told Newsweek about his five most important books. And answered two related questions:

A classic you revisited with disappointment:

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. Why did it take Melville so looooooonnnng to get to the story? I couldn't make it more than halfway through.

A book that parents should read to their kids:

Moby-Dick. Two minutes and they'll be asleep.

[CftAR note: don't swallow this line on Moby-Dick. It's amazing.]

Read about Keillor's most important books.

--Marshal Zeringue