With Cormac McCarthy’s passing I have been thinking about foundational books.

The 3-5 books you feel made you. Not necessarily your favourites, but the ones that have had the biggest impact on you over time.

Here are mine:

1. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

3. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

4. The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

5. 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

What are yours?