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).

The Poetics of Wrongness

Rachel Zucker

$22.00 $20.46

Hinge

Molly Spencer

$16.95

Frank: Sonnets

Diane Seuss

$18.00 $16.74

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

$20.00 $18.60

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid

$26.00 $24.18

The Witch of Eye

Kathryn Nuernberger

$16.95 $15.76

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

Matt Bell

$15.95 $14.83

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Suleika Jaouad

$28.00 $26.04

Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders

$17.00 $15.81

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

$18.00 $16.74

Cherry Hill: A Childhood Reimagined

Jona Frank

$45.00

Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party

Chessy Normile

$15.00 $13.95

Garden for the Blind

Kelly Fordon

$20.99

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

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

$11.99 $11.15

Childhood favorite. Still resonates.

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

Lori Gottlieb

$28.00 $26.04

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

Wave

Sonali Deraniyagala

$16.95 $15.76

Harrowing. Beautifully written.

City of Thieves

David Benioff

$18.00 $16.74

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 $14.88

Winter Honeymoon

Jacob M. Appel

$18.95 $17.62

I Have the Answer

Kelly Fordon

$19.99

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

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esmé Weijun Wang

$16.00 $14.88

Hotel World

Ali Smith

$14.95 $13.90

Interior States: Essays

Meghan O'Gieblyn

$16.00

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

$19.00 $17.67