Chuck Klosterman's five favorite books

Chuck Klosterman is the author of several books, including Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Killing Yourself to Live, and Downtown Owl.

One of his five favorite books, as told to The Daily Beast:

Preston Falls
by David Gates

I’d loved Gates’s brilliant first novel (Jernigan) because it was so grim. Then I read this one, which makes his first book seem like Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The author’s darkness has no bottom.

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue