Author Tim O'Brien recommends 6 of his favorite books

The author recommends works by Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, and more

Tim OBrien
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Tim O'Brien is the author of The Things They Carried, a collection of linked stories about Vietnam that has become a classic of war fiction. His new book, Dad's Maybe Book, collects musings he began years ago to share with his two young sons.

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961).

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