FAVORITE BOOKS FOR ADULTS

(Kids, don't try these at home. You are not allowed to read them until you turn 30. I'm not kidding!)

• Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
• Pride and Prejudice and Emma, by Jane Austen
• Travels With my Aunt, by Graham Greene
• Any short story by Grace Paley
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexander McCall Smith
• Love in the Time of Cholera,
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Norwood, by Charles Portis
• The Jack Reacher series, by Lee Child
• Moo, by Jane Smiley
• Water Music, by T. C. Boyle
• All short stories by Lee K. Abbott