Dominic Smith

Below is a running list of some of my favorite writers and/or books. They're in no particular order. It's mostly comprised of fiction writers but with some notable exceptions.

James Salter, especially Light Years and A Sport and a Pastime
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (everything)
Virginia Woolf, especially Mrs. Dalloway
Cormac McCarthy
Sebald
Richard Powers
Deborah Eisenberg
William Trevor
Roberto Bolano
Thomas Bernhard
Joy Williams
Joseph Mitchell, especially Up In The Old Hotel
Paul Bowles
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Tim Winton
David Malouf
Don DeLillo
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Charles Baxter
Denis Johnson
Andrea Barrett
Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
Peter Carey
Saul Bellow
Charles Johnson's Middle Passage
Tobias Wolff
Michael Chabon
Annie Proulx
Nabokov, especially Lolita
Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road
Raymond Carver's short stories
Frank Conroy's Midair
Barthelme's Sixty Stories
J. D. Salinger
Christina Stead
Patrick White
Jim Crace
Dickens
Joseph Conrad
Michael Cunningham
Chekhov, the stories
Dostoevsky
Kafka
James Joyce
Fitzgerald
Eudora Welty
Ethan Canin's Emperor of the Air and Blue River
Annie Dillard
Joan Didion
John Cheever
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping

to be continued...