Thomas Mallon's list

Novelist and critic Thomas Mallon is the author of Henry and Clara, Dewey Defeats Truman, and Bandbox. His latest novel, Fellow Travelers, is set in McCarthy-era Washington, D.C.He contributed "The List" to The Week magazine last week.One title on his list:The Collected Poems of Wilfred OwenWhat Keats would have produced had life substituted poison gas and hand grenades for urns and nightingales.