Τα 15 βιβλία που τον επηρέασαν στην ζωή του και η ηλικία που τα διάβασε
Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast, το διάβασε όταν ετώνήταν 14
Finnley Wren by Philip Wylie, 16
Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 17
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 20
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, 21
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 23
The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 24
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 25
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 25
The Trial by Franz Kafka, 27
The Fall by Albert Camus, 30
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 35
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 37
Cheri by Colette, 40
Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, 41