Category: Best
The best books in different categories, genres, and geography.

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Timeless Essays and Nonfiction by Great Writers
These timeless essays and nonfiction are filled with wisdom by great writers. Many of these reads are personal and go outside the writer’s genres...

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The Best Books about Venice, Italy
Venice, An Interior, by the brilliant Spanish writer Javier Marías, is a gorgeous and intimate portrait of the hidden Venice....

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David Bowie’s Favorite Books about Berlin, the Cold War, and Politics
I loved reading and learning more about David Bowie's favorite books....

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Short Reviews of Brilliant Books
Short book reviews of books I have read and consider worth reading....

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The Men Who Fell to Earth – Walter Tevis and David Bowie
The film stays with you, but after reading the novel by Tevis, I realized the book is better. ...

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The Fun Stuff: and Other Essays by James Wood
The Fun Stuff: and Other Essays by James Wood is one place to fill your literary emptiness....

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Image of Jesus in Literature
The NY Times article “Is Fiction Losing it’s Faith,” reminded me of a class I took in college: “The Image of Jesus in Literature.”...

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Books Everyone Should Read
Here are a few of my favorite books that everyone should read. All of them blew me away. ...

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The novel is comic and tragic at the same time. It's myth and a Genesis. It is magic realism with all the elements of...