Five books that improve on re-reading

Laura Dave is the author of the novels The Divorce Party and London is the Best City in America.

Invited by Powells.com to "[r]ecommend five or more books on a single subject of personal interest or expertise," she came up with:

Five Books That Get Better Every Time You Read Them:

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

Little Children by Tom Perrotta

Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion

Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson

Read the interview in which this list appears.

Visit Laura Dave's website.

--Marshal Zeringue