The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann
Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.
Reading
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
William H. Gass
A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.
Ms Ice Sandwich
Mieko Kawakami
A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.
Pastoralia
George Saunders
My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December came out.
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Really well done multiple personality disorder character. Also a side mystery plot.
Passing
Nella Larsen
Two light-skinned Black women from the same neighborhood follow very different trajectories in life and one day reconnect.
The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz
Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.
Effi Briest
Theodore Fontane
Set in 19th-century Germany, the story follows the life of Effi Briest, a young woman who enters into a socially advantageous but ultimately troubled marriage.
The Pole
J.M. Coetzee
A Polish pianist with an unpronounceable last name (let's call him W) comes to give a recital in Barcelona.
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
A chilling novel based on a true story, which begins with hope and ends in tragedy.
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
The novel revolves around Keiko Furukura, a socially awkward woman who has worked at the same convenience store for 18 years.
My Cheesecake Shaped Poverty
Haruki Murakami
This very short story is part of The New Yorker's flash fiction series.
The Bear
William Faulkner
The Bear follows a young boy named Isaac McCaslin, who goes on numerous hunting trips into the wilderness with his uncle and other men.
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette.
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed is about a planet and its moon and the clashing cultures…
Lucy By the Sea
Elizabeth Strout
The novel begins with William Barton visiting his ex-wife in NYC as the COVID-19 epidemic begins.
The Lives of Animals
J.M. Coetzee
A work tha explores the moral and ethical dimensions of animal suffering.