Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon: University of PittsburghRead about the other entries on the list.
Beneath a haze of pot, satire, and American dreaming, Chabon explores how artistic ambitions and youthful promise go awry with age. Expect to fall in love with this novel's triumvirate of wonder boys: a professor entrapped by his interminable second novel, his randy editor, and a student obsessed with Hollywood self-destruction.
Wonder Boys is among John Niven's top ten writers in novels.
--Marshal Zeringue