The Books That Haunt Us

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All readers have favorites from their personal history, "The Books That Haunt Us" is an analysis of 18 of the author's favorite books beginning with Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flat, " 1935 up through "The Tattooist of Auschwitz, " 2018. Other titles include: "It Can't Happen Here, " 1935, "Address Uknown, " 1938, "Darkness at Noon" 1940, "Hiroshima, " 1946, "If This is a Man, " 1947, "McElligot's Pool" 1947, "1984, " 1949, "Night, " 1960, "Black Like Me, " 1960, "Eichmann in Jerusalem, ": 1963, "Slaughterhouse-Five, " 1969, "The Plot Against America, " 2004, "I Heard You Paint Houses, " 2004, Two are less widely known: "A Desert Daughter's Odyssey, " 2000 and "A Book of Great Worth" 2012. "The Woman Who Could Not Die, " 1938, is now impossible to find, but was a major influence for George Orwell's "1984." Also contains the remarkable backstory of the 10 years before John Howard Griffin became black for "Black Like Me, " which became an instant American classic. The backstory is not mentioned in "Black Like Me.