The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion's powerful book on grief, injected with remarkable brevity, in which she guides readers through her experience with a striking sense of calm.
Non-fiction
15 books
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
Hiroshima
An incredibly raw retelling of the destruction and death visited upon a population almost eighty years ago.
Faith, Hope and Carnage
A generous and incredibly articulate conversation.
An Immense World
A monumental book, bound to leave its readers flabbergasted by nature.
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes
An endearing collection of brief essays on the objects that made her who she is.
Sontag: Her Life
A landmark biography.
