Favorite Books 2019

Favorite Books of 2019

I had read Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (one of my very favorite books, ever) and Long Day's Journey Into Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine previously. Repeated pleasures.  

Upon finishing The Overstory by Richard Powers I was compelled to read it again. It's that good. (And then I followed it up with an earlier novel by Powers - The Gold Bug Variations - also truly brilliant!)

Click on title to link to Goodreads page on each book. 

Please, buy books from booksellers, not Amazon.

The Overstory - Richard Powers

The Gold Bug Variations - Richard Powers

Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon

Canary - Nancy Jo Cullen

Three One-Act Plays - Woody Allen

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - Charles Bukowski

Journey To The End of the Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine 

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" —John Waters

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” 

— C.S. Lewis

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall." — Roald Dahl

“A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal

"Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic.” 

— Carl Sagan

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." 

— Joseph Brodsky

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading" - William Styron