Telling the tale

[Aurelius]

It's impossible to resist this thread. Some pretty standard stuff from me:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

John Irving - The World According to Garp

(This is the novel that got me reading, the one that woke up my 'adult' soul.)

James Joyce - Dubliners

And one for the Canadians, possibly my favourite writer:

Robertson Davies - any of the trilogies.

It's hard to say how these have influenced me, though John Irving certainly has.

Having seen Andrew Black's post, I must add the Grapes of Wrath. It's as relevant today is it was in the 30's.