All-time favorites

By Kelly Fordon

A list of my all-time favorite books (PS: I never include authors I personally know on this list).

Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts

Matt Bell

$15.95 $14.67

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Suleika Jaouad

$28.00 $25.76

Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders

$17.00 $15.64

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

$17.00 $15.64

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

$28.00 $25.76

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

$28.95 $26.63

Cherry Hill: A Childhood Reimagined

Jona Frank

$45.00

Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party

Chessy Normile

$15.00 $13.80

Garden for the Blind

Kelly Fordon

$19.99

I have heard a lot of great things about this author :)

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

$11.99 $11.03

Childhood favorite. Still resonates.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

$28.00 $25.76

So well written. Not my usual fare, but I highly recommend.

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

$16.95 $15.59

Harrowing. Beautifully written.

City of Thieves

David Benioff

$17.00 $15.64

Still with me after all these years. Poignant, funny, exquisite.

Friend of My Youth: Stories

Alice Munro

$16.00

Alice Munro is unparalleled. One of the greatest short story writers of the 20th century.

Bluets

Maggie Nelson

$16.00 $14.72

Winter Honeymoon

Jacob M. Appel

$18.95 $17.43

I Have the Answer

Kelly Fordon

$18.99

Obviously, I know this person and I am biased :)

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang

$16.00 $14.72

Hotel World

Ali Smith

$14.95 $13.75

Interior States: Essays

Meghan O'Gieblyn

$16.00

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

$17.95 $16.51

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Sally Mann

$19.99 $18.39

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

Min Jin Lee

$17.99 $16.55

Olio

Tyehimba Jess

$25.00 $23.00

Do the Windows Open?

Julie Hecht

$16.00