Ann Patchett's most important books

Ann Patchett is the author of the brilliant novel Bel Canto, a PEN/Faulkner Award winner about a hostage crisis in South America, and the more recent novel Run, the story of a fictional mixed-race Boston family.She recently told Newsweek about her five most important books.One title on the list:Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West.Sentence by sentence, one of the most beautifully constructed