BOOK THOUGHTS
Here are two dozen of my favorite books. Think of this as a sort of Meet the Book Blogger post. I pulled these favorite fiction and favorite nonfiction books off my shelves to illustrate the types of books I like to read. They aren't my favorite books of all times, but they are favorites that I've kept around. All have survived several shelf purges, proving they really are favorite books.
One thing you can tell from these favorites is I don't run out to read the latest book. My TBR shelves overflow with dated popular fiction, "modern" classics from the 20th Century, and books that were never popular but caught my eye. I read a lot of crime fiction and dabble with a few romance novels now and again, but there are several genres I rarely, if ever, read, like sci-fi, fantasy, erotica, and horror.
As for nonfiction, I love food writing, travel writing of the expat memoir variety, biographies of Midcentury socialites (there's a sub-genre for you!), style guides (as in writing style, not clothes), coffee table books about home decorating, and books about books.
Do we share any tastes in books? Here are some of my favorites.
📗 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
📗 Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
📗 The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark
📗 Independence Day by Richard Ford
📗 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
📗 Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion
📗 Mating by Norman Rush
📗 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
📗 Transcription by Kate Atkinson
📗 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
📗 Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
📗 American Tabloid by James Ellroy
FAVORITE NONFICTION
📘 Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols
📘 The Library Book by Susan Orlean
📘 Wait for Me! By Deborah Mitford
📘 The King’s English: A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
📘 Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O’Connor
📘 Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
📘 My Life in France by Julia Child
📘 The Food of France by Waverley Root
📘 Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
📘 The Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell
📘 Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government by P.J. O’Rourke
Have you read any of these? Would you?
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