A Kiss Before Dying, by Ira Levin Boy meets girl but falls in love with her bank account in Ira Levin’s first novel
Midnight Cowboy, by James Leo Herlihy Joe Buck dreams of hustling women for fast cash but New York has other ideas
The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis Walter Tevis’s sci-fi novel inspects what it means to be human
Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer Krakauer gets under the skin of modern-day faith and spirituality