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	Name: Trebor Healey
	City & State: Los Angeles, California
	Vocation / Avocation: Novelist & Poet
	Website: www.treborhealey.com

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

I'm a writer because I have always loved books, so of course I'm constantly reading--to learn, to improve my own voice, to escape, to enjoy, to be inspired, enlightened, shocked, cracked up and woken up!

My List of Ten: Novels

1. Blu's Hanging
Author: Lois Ann Yamanaka
The best book about what it feels like to be a child. Totally unsentimental and real.

2. Horse Crazy
Author: Gary Indiana
A fantastic book about obsession and crush by an author who can reflect on all that entails.

3. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon
Author: Tom Spanbauer
This book has such an incredible voice, beautifully poetic and fun and profound and spot on with its Native Am. perspective.

4. Beautiful Losers
Author: Leonard Cohen
An incredibly poetic and insightful book by one of the greatest songwriters of our time.

5. The Great Gatsby
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald
I've always thought this was the perfect succinct little novel.

6. The Passion
Author: Jeannette Winterson
An extraordinary novel, with pretty much everything: history, poetry, incredible writing sentence by sentence.

7. Tess of the Durbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy
The descriptive writing about nature and seasons in this book is unrivaled.

8. Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
The greatest of the Victorian adultery novels.

9. Confessions of a Mask
Author: Yukio Mishima
The best coming out story.

10. Dharma Bums
Author: Jack Kerouac
All Kerouac's poetry coupled with the wilderness and the most positive and Buddhist of his books.

Have you read any of these titles? Review one now.

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