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Great Expectations Charles Dickens |
“When my partner and I drove from Texas to Brooklyn we listened to Great Expectations on tape to get our cats to shut up. It worked. Also, it's a great book.” |
Helene |
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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Mysterious Howling Maryrose Wood |
“If I had kids I would read them this series. The prose is wonderful and the illustrations are charming. Think cutesy Quentin Blake.” |
Helene |
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The Cat Bible Tracie Hotchner |
“J'aime tellement les chats!!!” |
Steve |
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A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes |
“Great for the beach or prison cell alike. A disquieting but entertaining and oddly beautiful novel about innocence corrupted. And one of the best books about pirates out there!” |
Zack |
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Invisible Paul Auster |
“A really good book you should read if you're into Paul Auster, New York, French people, sleeping with your sister, and/or murder.” |
Bonnie |
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Sleepwalk: And Other Stories Adrian Tomine |
“For your New Year's resolution to read more graphic novels. Adrian Tomine's stories are unnerving, dark, quiet, and intriguing.” |
Bonnie |
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Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel Anne Perry |
“Anne Perry is an elegant, uncanny storyteller -- every moment of is perfectly realized within a concise, satisfying narrative. William Monk himself is an intriguing character -- a detective who lost his memory and uses his detective skills to learn who and what he was before he lost his identity. It is an ongoing process that takes place throughout the William Monk series.” |
Stephen |
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Gould's book of fish Richard Flanagan |
“Just in case you missed this fantastic 2002 novel set in a many-colored, muddy, and violent 19th Century Tasmanian prison colony and illuminated (literally) by local fishes. "Flanagan has written a book whose uniqueness mirrors its principal theme - the dangers of classification. I urge you to read it," said Robert McFarlane in The Observer. I can't put it much more concisely than that, but hasten to add that his prose is gorgeous: fresh and ecstatic. It delivers. Dig it. ” |
Christien |
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The wonders of the invisible world David Gates |
“The short stories published by David Gates in 2000, not the defense-of-witch-hunting published by Cotton Mather in 1693. (Themes in common? I'll leave that to you.) All of this guy's work is dark, funny, and compulsively readable. His characters are geographically misplaced or just confused about where they're supposed to be, struggling in relationships, attempting the often impossible balancing act between making art & making money--and they're usually not helped all that much by the fact that they're quite smart and/or intoxicated. That's how I remember it, anyway. Could be I'm salting in some themes from his two excellent novels, Jernigan, and Preston Falls. Either way, read this stuff; it's great.” |
Christien |
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Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë |
“This is one of my absolute favorite books and if you haven't read it, you should ASAP. If you have, it's always a good time to reread it, especially this beautiful edition.” |
Isabel |
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