Litstack Recs | The Love of A Good Woman & Project Hail Mary
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio A classic read for #shortstorymonth is Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection The...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us in the...
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph...
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author wanted, The...
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the how this small, but powerful...
The Places In-Between, by Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A...
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Orphans: Essays, by Charles D'Ambrosio Hold a copy of Orphans in your hand, and its singularity is apparent. With its...
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen During the Armenian genocide, 1.2 million Armenians were systematically murdered between 1915 and...
These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen Edition from the 2nd printing of These Charming People, c. 1924 In the...
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which...
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's 2011 collection, The Empty Family is a book I always keep...
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was in his short life a...
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant When the great story writer Mavis Gallant died, I thought of a story from her...
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows,...
New year, new books—and these are some of the ones I'm looking forward to in 2021. My Year Abroad, by...
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
The MoneyBunny Series The internationally acclaimed MoneyBunnies Series, by Canadian author and illustrator Cinders McLeod, are the perfect books for...
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you’re a fan of classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli’s...
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant. Innovative. Lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us...
Current WTAW Press Titles WTAW Press has two great 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and Like...
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean Greer, is a jewel-box of...
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon There are some...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
Car Trouble by Robert Rorke As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is...
Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron In 1979, John Gardner wrote in his review of Sophie's Choice, “guilt is everywhere,” a...
Middlemarch, by George Eliot The first thing I knew about Middlemarch, George Eliot’s classic novel, was the ending. The year...
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen If you're a fan of The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh...
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod This is the perfect book for young readers on your list, because it's never too...
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
The summer of 2020 is unlike those past—no traveling, no baseball games, limited beach and park time, if any, and...
Space Opera, by Catherynne Valente Having recently watched the surprisingly good Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga on...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, with a foreword by Salman Rushdie. Beowulf Sheehan, the literary world’s foremost photographer, has...
If you're devoting some of your stay-at-home to a work-in-progress, here are three classics of writing craft to see you...
As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA books in the scifi/fantasy genre...
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year's Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The eight stories in Andrea Barrett's 1996 story collection, which won that year's National...
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author chose, The...
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban With the Pentagon's recent release of three unclassified videos of...