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The Adventures of Augie March, winner of the National Book Award in 1954, and hailed as an all-time great by many of the greatest American authors, is our first book in this series that truly feels obscure. How we haven’t heard of this book, we’re not sure, but we’re going to discover this one together!
Augie March is a Jewish-American boy growing up fatherless and poor in Depression-era Chicago. He seeks a “special destiny,” although his circumstances seem to position him for a uniquely disappointing life: his family consists of a simple-minded mother, a brother and “grandmother” who prove to be Machiavellian in their intentions, and an “idiot” youngest brother, Georgie.