One book on the list:Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck.Read about another title on the list.
When I was a teenager, my grandmother gave me the complete John Steinbeck collection; his books, with their portrait of California during the Depression, enthralled me. “Cannery Row” is a collection of vignettes about the fishery town of Monterey, and its down-at-their-heels denizens who attempt to throw a party.
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” This is how Steinbeck begins his book, and I think with this one line he captured an entire state, both then and now.
Cannery Row is one of Paulette Jiles's 12 favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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