No idea what types of books you like to read; these are some of my favorites: Word by Word (Kory Stamper), nonfiction, about writing dictionaries Last Days of Summer (Steve Kluger), epistolary fiction during WWII in NYC (I love this despite there being so much baseball, which I have no interest at all) The City, Not Long After (Pat Murphy), SF in SFO (Also, pretty much anything else by her) Sunshine (Robin McKinley), baking and vampires (I don’t love the vampire genre in general, but love this; warning that there is no recipe section at the back, no matter how many times I reread it) Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman), essays about books, the owning and reading of them, and language Home Cooking (Laurie Colwin), essays about food and cooking by home cooks, from 1990s NYC
Let me know if any of these are hits or misses, and I’ll happily suggest others.
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Word by Word (Kory Stamper), nonfiction, about writing dictionaries
Last Days of Summer (Steve Kluger), epistolary fiction during WWII in NYC (I love this despite there being so much baseball, which I have no interest at all)
The City, Not Long After (Pat Murphy), SF in SFO (Also, pretty much anything else by her)
Sunshine (Robin McKinley), baking and vampires (I don’t love the vampire genre in general, but love this; warning that there is no recipe section at the back, no matter how many times I reread it)
Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman), essays about books, the owning and reading of them, and language
Home Cooking (Laurie Colwin), essays about food and cooking by home cooks, from 1990s NYC
Let me know if any of these are hits or misses, and I’ll happily suggest others.