Me Talk Pretty One Day

The Great Gatsby

“after 15 plus readings still some of the best lines in American fiction”

The Blind Assassin

“This book is, by far, my Desert Island Pick. I could read it again and again, and never get tired of it.”

The Time Traveler's Wife

“I know this will make me sound like a typical closet romantic girly-girl, but I loved this book read it obsessively in three...”

Nine Stories

“'i'll exquisite day you, buddy'. Need I say more? I heart Teddy.”

Me Talk Pretty One Day

“The first time I read this, I actually laughed so hard I wept. Hilarious and sublime.”

Arcadia

“whether you like theatre or not, whether you've lived in England or Tanzania or Ohio, this play is intense. in a good way.”

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“Chabon is magic. To weave small gems of acute observation into vast, engrossing, really, really human narratives: my god. I...”

The Virgin Suicides

“So evocatively written that you feel like you're drowning in teenage malaise.”

The Secret History

“The darkness. The brooding quality. The Bacchanalian dirtiness.”

One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father...”

Anna Karenina

“I put off reading this book for years, thinking it would be difficult to get through but as soon as I actually started, I was...”

Dancer

“One of the most gorgeously written books I've read in years. A fictionalized biography of the Russian dancer Nureyev, McCann...”