Like churches during the Middle Ages, books conferred instant sanctuary.
Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
From the 80 books that I finished in 2012, below are my favorites, listed in the order in which I read them.
The Grief of Others (Leah Hager Cohen)
The Art of Fielding (Chad Harbach)
Kayak Morning (Roger Rosenblatt)
The Flight of Gemma Hardy (Margot Livesey)
The Snow Child (Eowyn Ivey)
The Chalk Girl (Carol O'Connell)
Paris in Love (Eloisa James)
Afterwards (Rosamund Lupton)
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (Anna Quindlen)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Cheryl Strayed)
The Age of Miracles (Karen Thompson Walker)
Contents May Have Shifted (Pam Houston)
The Life of Objects (Susanna Moore)
The Twelve (Justin Cronin)
The End of Your Life Book Club (Will Schwalbe)
Bury Your Dead (Louise Penny)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
Eight Girls Taking Pictures (Whitney Otto)
Mrs Queen Takes the Train (William Kuhn)
Carry the One (Carol Anshaw)
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life.
Justin Cronin, The Twelve
1 comment:
Thanks, Katrish! The only one I've read is The Book Thief, which I read a few years ago and loved. Are there any that are particularly good for a book group?
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