Between Two Kingdoms, Suleika Jaouad
The author develops leukemia in her early twenties given a 35% chance of survival… the dreams we all have in youth, the life imagined,...
Beginners, Tom Vanderbilt
. It’s a book about beginning again… to learn, and keep learning. It’s not a how to do book as much as a why to do book. It’s less about...
Bewilderment, Richard Powers
An astrobiologist trying to raise his son as a single parent after his wife dies (and their unborn little child). The son is unusual to...
All About Me, Mel Brooks
Growing up poor in Brooklyn to headlining at Radio City Music Hall, Brooks takes us through his entire life and in comedy. He learned...
My Southern Journey, Rick Bragg
Another excellent short story collection from Bragg… he writes of the South in a way beyond cliches, and pulls his writings from...
The Discomfort Zone, Jonathan Franzen
Short stories on his life as a child to an adult that weave back and forth. Two Ponies on the life of Charles Schulz, creator of...
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
I told you I was getting on a Franzen reading kick and it continues with this long novel on the Berglund family. From the voice of Patty...
Antifragile, Nassim Taleb
Taleb’s philosophical book that discusses the evolution of the antifragile system; what happens when we starve systems; the asymmetry of...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Confessions, Leo Tolstoy
The legendary author from Russia. His style and use of repetition is faithfully preserved in this translation from Peter Carson that...
Where I Come From, Rick Bragg
A southern writer whose short stories make me long for being young and growing up in Virginia. This is not a book intended to be a...