Top 5 books you've read this year?
Got a couple of asks about this! I read some good stuff this year so far - in no particular order:
1. Margaret Walker, Jubilee. I’m halfway through that book and it’s so, so good. Walker wrote the story of her great-grandmother, a biracial slave during the Secession War, and I can’t put it down.
2. John Irving, Setting Free the Bears. Apparently it took 2020 for me to finally start reading Irving and it’s not exactly the stuff you read to relax, but that book pulled on my European heartstrings in a ~deep way. (next on my list: The Cider House Rules)
3. Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill. Farrow’s book about the Weinstein investigation and it BLEW. MY. MIND. I read it in a day and a half because it reads like the most thrilling spy novel, except it’s real life and terrifying.
4. Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides. Eugenides rocked my world with Middlesex about ten years ago and I can’t believe it took me so long to read that one.
5. Marek Halter, The Children of Abraham. Love Halter, loved The Book of Abraham and that sequel is maybe not as good but one I couldn’t put down. Plus I shamefully understand very little about the history of the middle east conflicts, and that served as a good intro.
