Really Good Books by Dead Guys

I've had The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger on my list of things to read for ages. It's supposed to be a classic. It's also on my "list of 50 books to read to be well read" that's on my fridge. I forgot about it, until J.D. Salinger passed away. I put it on hold at the library (I guess a few other people had the same idea) and.....it's amazing. Read it! It's not at all what I thought it would be about, even though I had no idea what it was about. I was hooked from the opening sentence.

After that, I moved to Dust To Dust by Timothy Findley. Timothy Findley is one of my very favorite authors. After he died, I stopped reading his stuff. I didn't want to read through all of it too quickly. I over-compensated. I didn't read any Findley for years. I was hooked again from the first story, Dust. (It's a book of short stories). Dust turned out to by my favorite in the book, but the whole thing is really good.