Literary Fiction
The Remains of the Day
An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
Curated list · 7 books
Short & Perfect
Concise books that say more in a few hours than many say in a few weeks.
Ideal for a weekend, a flight, or a reading slump. Each is the kind of book you will want to read twice.
Fantasy
Piranesi
A man lives contentedly in an endless house of marble halls, statues and tides, until signs of another presence begin to unsettle his world.
Literary Fiction
Gilead
An elderly Iowa minister writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, fathers and the ordinary beauty of the world.
Memoir
The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion's precise, unsentimental account of the year following her husband's sudden death.
Philosophy
Meditations
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, a practical guide to composure, duty and meeting life as it comes.
Essays
A Room of One's Own
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
Memoir
Crying in H Mart
A musician and writer reconnects with her Korean heritage through food in the wake of her mother's illness and death.