One of his six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:
Dhalgren by Samuel R. DelanyRead about the other entries on the list.
Huge, weird, disorienting, and great fun if you don't mind not knowing exactly what's going on, Dhalgren is the closest thing science fiction has produced to a genuinely experimental novel. All the action is set in and around a Midwestern city that's vanished into a weird, lawless catastrophe that functions as a sort of black hole. Not for everyone, but if you like it, you never forget it. Dhalgren reads like the Sixties felt.
Dhalgren is a book Junot Díaz always returns to.
--Marshal Zeringue
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