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Mark endorses Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
We also mention:
- Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus
- Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be.
- Kate Beaton’s Hark a Vagrant.
- Charlotte Gill’s Eating Dirt
- Dani Couture’s Algoma
- Adam Gopnik’s Winter: Five Windows On The Season
- Douglas Coupland’s and Graham Roumieu’s Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People
- Neal Stephenson’s Reamde
- “The Mongoliad” By Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and Friends from Subutai
- Michael Crichton’s Airframe
- Michael Lewis’ Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
- Michael Lewis’ Big Short
- Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest
- Sebastian Junger’s War
- Michael Lewis’ It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! from Vanity Fair
- Mark Bowden’s Worm: The First Digital World War
- Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84
- Haruki Murakami’s Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- The Third Reich: A Novel by Roberto Bolaño
- All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books at Time.com
- Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
- Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
- Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
- The September Issue — the movie.
- Tom Wolfe and Martin Amis
- Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
