I’m in a bit of a reading lull right now and looking for something that I’ll actually have a good time reading. Finished Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” and “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders earlier this year, and both definitely qualify! Both deeply moving but both also had a kind of levity and humor that kept it them going.
by alarmedintheatlantic
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I like those books you mentioned- I’d throw the author Richard Russo into your pile. He writes quite well and with a lot of levity but also gravitas. Consider his classic Empire Falls or Bridge of Sighs.
John Scalzi’s **Starter Villain** is the most entertaining book I’ve read recently. It’s a spoof of the early James Bond movies. A substitute teacher inherits his estranged uncle’s villainy which comes complete with a secret volcanic lair.
North Woods by Daniel Mason
A Middling Sort by Jud Widing