I work at a library and am doing a ‘blind date with a book’ display for this month. A lot of my books are checked out so I’m trying to find more. It can be any genre, preferably nothing from the last 1-2 years, and preferably not one that you think everyone has or a lot read by now (although there are a few on this list that fit that bill). I realize these are pretty broad parameters, but I spent hours scouring this subreddit for my display and so far it’s been a hit so I’d love some fresh recommendations!
For reference, here are books I had so far:
I Who Have Never Known Men
Atonement
Thinking Fast and Slow
Tender is the Flesh
Why Fish Don’t Exist
All In (Simona Ahrnstedt)
The Love of my Afterlife
Magpie Murders
Silent Spring
Anyone (Charles Soule)
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura)
My Brilliant Friend
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The End of Everything (Megan Abbott)
A Borrowed Man (Gene Wolfe)
The Prestige
The Life Impossible
Kitchen Confidential
The Thirteenth Tale
Confederates in the Attic
The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
The Wife Between Us
A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
Good Material (Dolly Alderton)
Thank you!
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“Designing Your Life” and “Braiding Sweetgrass”!
Talent Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Let the Great World Spin – Colum McCann
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
“Progress and Poverty by Henry George is not so much a book as an event. The life and thought of no-one capable of understanding it can be quite the same after reading it.” – Emma Lazarus
“The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George.” – Albert Einstein
I agree with these quotes. Progress and Poverty aims to answer the question of why poverty persists despite enormous technological and economic progress. The answers it gives are becoming more and more important in the modern world. If more people, particularly politicians and economists, were familiar with Henry George we’d be much better off for it
I read *Peace Like a River* by Lief Enger in a class when I was in high school and it’s one of the only books I’ve re-read more than once over ~20 years since.
The Alchemist