Reading Recommendations?

I have learned to treasure book recommendations. Not just someone's mild tweet or positive rating--but when someone tells me, "You absolutely must read THIS."

Over the holidays, I love to catch up on my reading for pleasure (even typing this makes me feel rather giddy). So, lovely readers and friends...what have you read that you feel compelled to praise or share? Please and thanks.


A few of the books I read and LOVED LOVED LOVED this year: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Good Squad; Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and Lesle Lewis's A Boot's a Boot.

Spotted in San Francisco, near City Lights Bookstore!

On My Bookshelf...

Some books that I am in the midst of reading/revisiting/planning to devour next....

1. Safe House, David Winter
2. Frankenstein's Flowers, Charlene Fix
3. The Ides of March: An Anthology of Ohio Poets (edited by me!--handy for multiple National Poetry Month events)
4. The Child that Books Built, Francis Spufford
5. Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv



What's on your shelf right now?