Best books...chosen by Benjamin Anastas

Benjamin Anastas’s Too Good to Be True is one of the most acclaimed memoirs of 2012.

Benjamin Anastas’s Too Good to Be True is one of the most acclaimed memoirs of 2012. Below, the Massachusetts-born novelist lists six favorite books by one of his literary heros, Martin Amis.

Money: A Suicide Note (Penguin Ink, $16). Open this relentless reality grab of a novel to any page and you’ll find Amis doing things to the language—and to early-’80s New York City—that you didn’t think possible. John Self, the most breathtaking lout in the Amis criminal lineup, is a vulgarian so complete that only Hollywood (and Selina Street, his live-in vixen) can outdream his appetite for wealth and all it buys.

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