|
|
|
Staff Recommendations
|
A listing of staff proclivities, recommended by both past and present bookstore and publishing employees. Check back for new recommendations each month as we bring you the best of what we're reading or have read. Browse by title, author or staff member!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blue Self-Portrait
Noémi Lefebvre
This book is a merry-go-round of memory rehashing, a dizzy spell cast by an unshakeable narrator, and oh so French. —Recommended by Cassie
|
|
|
Garbage Times / White Ibis
Two Novellas
Sam Pink
Sam Pink is the funniest writer in America. He will make you laugh, cry, and see the world, and its people, with new eyes. I want to be buried with this book. —Recommended by Joey
|
|
|
The Sarah Book
Scott McClanahan
Scott McClanahan is one of the most important voices in American literature right now. His paragraphs get stuck in your head like your favorite songs. This book is manic, sweaty, kind, and human. —Recommended by Joey
|
|
|
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Alberto Manguel
A wonderfully digressive little volume about our complex relationship with our books and being an incurable bibliophile. The perfect antidote to Walter Benjamin's classic essay, Unpacking My Library. —Recommended by Michael
|
|
|
Black Swans
Stories
Eve Babitz
"He was not remote, elevated, or windy enough for me; by God, I liked my men humiliating or at least impossible to get to..." Eve Babitz is full of such delights. Come for the gossip, stay for the sentences. —Recommended by Vanessa & Cassie
|
|
|
America is Not the Heart
A Novel
Elaine Castillo
An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakable grip of history. —Recommended by Paul & Andy
|
|
|
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
When Apollo Kagwa's father disappeared, all he left his son were strange recurring dreams and a box of books stamped with the word IMPROBABILIA. Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll.
|
|
|
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.
|
|
|
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin
Sickness devours our narrator as she retraces the steps that led her to this strange hospital bed. Never has a title been more apt to describe a scalding and blurry reading experience, the idea of memory twisted and tangled throughout. —Recommended by Cassie
|
|
|
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. —Recommended by Scott & Paul
|
|
|
Transit
A Novel
Rachel Cusk
The book you didn't know you needed. This very moment. Allow yourself to be swept up in the many transits of life.—Recommended by Cassie
|
|
|
Bunk
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue's gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers. —Recommended by Paul
|
|
|
The Red Atlas
How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World
John Davies, Alexander J. Kent
Fascinating and full of detail. A wonderful rabbit hole to fall down, especially when Russian involvement in foreign politics has again made the news... —Recommended by Vanessa
|
|
|
RSS Privacy Policy All imagery and content © 2018 City Lights. All rights reserved.
