Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once
By Vince Passaro

The wisest poetry, the most extraordinary prose: five top-shelf books that will blow open your understanding of the world.

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

It blows open a new understanding of the world, its gorgeousness, its corruption and pain, all embedded in the 20th century's most extraordinary English prose.

From the May 2005 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine