Currently in the middle of 'Piranesi' by Susanna Clarke. Short, strange, and I've been rationing it to make it last. Drop yours.
Richard Powers took nine lifetimes worth of human stories and wove them around trees, and by the end I was weeping in a parking lot. Fiction at its most quietly radical.
I used to think longer meant more serious. Now I think brevity is the harder achievement. Give me a tight 200-page novel over a 600-page sprawl almost every time.
Free books. Free movies. Free tools, sometimes. Free meeting rooms. Free internet. Climate-controlled. Staffed by people who love helping you find things. We do not deserve libraries and we should protect them fiercely.
McCarthy wrote the Bible for a universe where God lost. Judge Holden is the most terrifying character in American literature. I need to read something with puppies in it now.
Think 'In Cold Blood,' 'The Devil in the White City,' 'Bad Blood.' Narrative nonfiction that's as compelling as any novel. Hit me with your favorites.
Better than The Martian. Genuine sense of wonder, a friendship for the ages, and the kind of problem-solving pacing you can't put down. Go in blind if you haven't read it.
I have a Kindle and I love it. But there's something about the physical object — spine creased, margins scribbled in, lent to friends — that the digital version will never replicate. I still buy the ones I love twice.
A Russian count sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel for life. Nothing much happens and everything happens. Towles's prose is a gift. If you've slept on this one, don't.
For me it was Sapiens. Not because I agree with everything in it, but because it made me question narratives I'd never examined. What's the one for you?