I’m just back from the BG Literary annual retreat; as always, inspired, happy to meet new folks & catch up with friends, sorry to miss seeing people who couldn’t make it this year. And like last year, one of the discussions was about recent books we’d enjoyed/admired/otherwise appreciated and endorsed. Here they are.
Wig In The Window, Kristen Kittscher
The Golem and the Jinni, Helene Wecker
The Different Girl, Gordon Dahlquist
Code Name Verity, Elizabeth Wein
The Fault In Our Stars, John Green
The Bedlam Detective, Stephen Gallagher
The Rook, Daniel O’Malley
Cold Cereal, Adam Rex
The Night Circus, Erin Morganstern
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
The Lucy Variations, Sara Zarr
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
Prince of Cats, Ron Wimberly
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Proxy, Alex London
The Shambling Guide to New York City, Mur Lafferty
Tenth of December, George Saunders
All That Is, James Salter
The Fish Wife, Kim Antieau
House of Rumour, Jake Arnott
September Girls, Bennett Madison
The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson
Ghost Hawk, Susan Cooper
The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Lord
2312, Kim Stanley Robinson
YOU: a novel, Austin Grossman
Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson
Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Still Life, Louise Penny
Dodger, Terry Pratchett
Redshirts, Jon Scalzi