The books are stacked high on my bedside table and in various piles around the apartment. Reading had always been my great escape, and as you know, there are many reasons for escape these days. I've assembled a list of books suggested by some of my FB friends, family members, the NYT, Goodreads, the staff at Powells Books and me. The list isn't as long as last year's... I didn't include books of poetry or titles that were on any previous lists. 

It's a list that will expand if you would be so kind as to send me your own suggestions.

Tomorrow I will attend the No Kings March and hope to post my photographs here on Monday. 

Be safe, everyone. And happy reading.


Jonathan Rosen: The Best Minds

Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare

Michael Lewis: Who is Government

Jennifer Haigh: Rabbit Moon

Suleika Jaouad: The Book of Alchemy

Sean Hewitt: Open, Heaven

Ayelet Tsabari: Brokenhearted

Yiyun Li: Things in Nature Merely Grow

Elif Shafak: There are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, The Forty Rules of Love

Jennifer Eagan: A Visit From the Goon Squad

Frederik Backman: Anxious People, My Friends

Anna Johnston: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book, Horse, Memorial Days

Chris Whitaker: All the Colors of the Dark, We Begin at the End

Elizabeth Strout: Tell Me Everything

Annie Hartnett: The Road to Tender Hearts, Unlikely Animals

Alice Winn: In Memoriam

Ocean Vuoung: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, The Emperor of Gladness

Florence Knapp: The Names

Virginia Evans: The Correspondent

Kevin Sack: Mother Emanuel

Barbara Demick: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

Maggie Stiefvater: The Listeners

Charlotte McConaghy: Wild Dark Shore

Allegra Goodman: Isola

Amor Towles: Table for Two

Lawrence Wright: The Human Scale








 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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6/13/2025

The books are stacked high on my bedside table and in various piles around the apartment. Reading had always been my great escape, and as you know, there are many reasons for escape these days. I've assembled a list of books suggested by some of my FB friends, family members, the NYT, Goodreads, the staff at Powells Books and me. The list isn't as long as last year's... I didn't include books of poetry or titles that were on any previous lists. 

It's a list that will expand if you would be so kind as to send me your own suggestions.

Tomorrow I will attend the No Kings March and hope to post my photographs here on Monday. 

Be safe, everyone. And happy reading.


Jonathan Rosen: The Best Minds

Chloe Dalton: Raising Hare

Michael Lewis: Who is Government

Jennifer Haigh: Rabbit Moon

Suleika Jaouad: The Book of Alchemy

Sean Hewitt: Open, Heaven

Ayelet Tsabari: Brokenhearted

Yiyun Li: Things in Nature Merely Grow

Elif Shafak: There are Rivers in the Sky, The Island of Missing Trees, The Forty Rules of Love

Jennifer Eagan: A Visit From the Goon Squad

Frederik Backman: Anxious People, My Friends

Anna Johnston: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book, Horse, Memorial Days

Chris Whitaker: All the Colors of the Dark, We Begin at the End

Elizabeth Strout: Tell Me Everything

Annie Hartnett: The Road to Tender Hearts, Unlikely Animals

Alice Winn: In Memoriam

Ocean Vuoung: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, The Emperor of Gladness

Florence Knapp: The Names

Virginia Evans: The Correspondent

Kevin Sack: Mother Emanuel

Barbara Demick: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove

Maggie Stiefvater: The Listeners

Charlotte McConaghy: Wild Dark Shore

Allegra Goodman: Isola

Amor Towles: Table for Two

Lawrence Wright: The Human Scale