Writers
Just as a way to fulfill my own curiosity, I'd like to know, much like Benedict, which writers are the best, favorite, etc? To give my initial list, of five fiction writers, I'll confine it to naming the writer and their, in my mind, essential book.
Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow
Philip Roth The Human Stain
Don DeLillo White Noise
Michael Chabon Wonder Boys
Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West