Mother Jones co-founder Adam Hochschild told The Week that his six favorite books are:
- The Raj Quartet, by Paul Scott
- A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
- Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell
- Trust Me, by John Updike
- The Gypsies, by Jan Yoors
Of Trust Me he writes, “I could pick almost any book of Updike’s short stories, but I chose this one because it has my favorite, ‘Leaf Season,’ about a family’s excursion to Vermont.
“I reread it almost every year. It’s like a perfect piece of music you can listen to again and again.”