My Top Five Favorite Novels of All Time

These are the novels that have had the greatest impact on me as a reader and the biggest influence on me as a writer.

Hello Family,

How are you? I hope that you’re doing well.

I’m taking a little literary trip today. Won’t you join me?

Maurice Carlos Ruffin—author of We Cast a Shadow, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, the forthcoming The American Daughters, and the Substack newsletter,

Sitting in Silence

—posted an article not too long ago detailing his top five favorite books of all t…