Good Minds Suggest—Geoff Dyer's Favorite Books About Obsessions

English author and journalist Geoff Dyer tells Goodreads, "It is difficult to imagine how anyone could write a book about something he or she was not obsessed by." His own freewheeling obsessions are reflected in a diverse body of work. Dyer idolizes D.H. Lawrence in Out of Sheer Rage, riffs on the lives of jazz musicians in But Beautiful, and meditates on art and oblivion in Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. Although singular in his subjects, Dyer is expansive in style, employing fiction, memoir, travel writing, literary criticism, and other techniques—often at the same time. His new book, Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, chronicles his decades-long idée fixe: watching and analyzing Andrei Tarkovsky's influential science fiction film, Stalker. Dyer admits that some writers "are more obviously obsessive than others," and now you can feed your own compulsions with his top picks by his fellow possessed.