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I don't know why, but I can never get anybody to add the following excellent books to their list:

Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah (epic adventure of a white-boy jazz trumpet player who grows up on the cusp of the civil rights movement in the south. Lots of neat adventures, lots of poetry)

Speak, Memory by Nabakov (this book is so pretty. And you don't have to worry this time about someone thinking you're a pedo for reading it)

92 in the Shade by Thomas McGuane (yes, it's bit hippy-ish, and yes, McGuane is a bit too much of a fisherman-cum-Hemingway for most tastes, but this nonetheless is a brilliant novel about a drug-addled Key West skiff-guide wannabe and his explosive misadventures. Great comedy and drama.)