David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books

[I’ve read various literary critics declare that they thought Wallace gave this list as tongue in cheek or that perhaps he was trying to make a point about what we read. I’m not sure any of these suggestions are warranted. I do know, after a year or so of listening to interviews, reading Wallace, and hearing him make various statements about how some popular authors and their work are quite good, that this list may have been quite sincere. It would not surprise me if it were.]