The Dog of the South
Ray Midge, a bean counter in Arkansas, is our leading man and narrator. One day, his wife leaves him for Guy Dupree, but what's worse is that she takes his car.
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Clay
Multi-levels of meaning and potential interpretation exist in this, one of
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Hail Mary
Hard sci-fi from the author of The Martian.
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My Brilliant Friend
August book club selection
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.
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In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.
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Ms Ice Sandwich
A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.
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Perfect Days
The film follows the routine life of Hirayama, who cleans public restrooms and during his breaks, relaxes by having a bite to eat on a park bench and taking photos of the sun shining through the leaves above. I have since learned that the word in Japanese for the appreciation of sunlight coming through a canopy of leaves overhead is komorebi (木漏れ日). I have a trove of photos like that, so it should have its own word. I also learned...
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Pastoralia
My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December
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Stella Maris
Plenty of philosophical themes in this patient - psychologist dialogue
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The Passenger
Really well done multiple personality disorder character. Also a side mystery
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Passing
Two light-skinned Black women from the same neighborhood follow very different trajectories in life and one day reconnect.
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Thursday Murder Club
Retirees spend Thursdays solving old mysteries for enjoyment.
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New Yorker Hiroshima Issue
The entire contents of The New Yorker issue containing John Hersey's Hiroshima essay had an unfortunate cover illustration.
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The Captive Mind
Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.
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We
The book that influenced Orwell, Huxley and Rand.
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Effi Briest
Set in 19th-century Germany, the story follows the life of Effi Briest
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The Pole
A Polish pianist with an unpronounceable last name (let's call him W) comes
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Convenience Store Woman
The novel revolves around Keiko Furukura, a socially awkward woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years.
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The Nickel Boys
A chilling novel based on a true story, which begins with hope and ends in tragedy.
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My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty
New Yorker edition that the story appears in. “My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty” is a Murakami short story that first appeared in The New Yorker ( my-cheesecake-shaped-poverty.pdf ). This very short story is part of The New Yorker’s flash fiction series, so it’s unlikely it is more than 1000 words. The time is 1973. A young newlywed couple desires to move into their first home. They don’t have much money, so the estate agent looks them up and down and hesitantly...
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The Bear
The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.
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The Glass Hotel
Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette.
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed is about a planet and its moon and the clashing cultures…
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Lucy By the Sea
The novel begins with William Barton visiting his ex-wife in NYC as the COVID-19
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The Lives of Animals
A work tha explores the moral and ethical dimensions of animal suffering.
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The Return
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing…
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Fifth Business
The novel begins with the childhood incident that shapes Ramsay's life.
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Liberation Day
A collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair,
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Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go is a thought-provoking dystopian novel written…
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