Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o’clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. I am able to date the occasion with complete certainty because that afternoon I had been sledding with my lifelong friend and enemy Percy Boyd Staunton, and we had quarrelled, because his fine new Christmas sled would not go as fast as my old one.
reco: I haven’t read it myself yet, but I know it’s a classic and one i want to read.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger
ONE night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour.
reco:It’s the one we haven't read.