Extraordinary books

My short list of books that absolutely blew me away -- and still do.

• Love's Body by Norman O. Brown
  
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
  
• The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, a libretto by Bertolt Brecht
  
• Mrs. Bridge by Evan Connell
  
• The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt
  
• The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
  
• Genesis Angels by Aram Saroyan
  
• Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss