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By the Book: Brandon Taylor (2023)

NYT By the Book column (2023-05-25).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Thirty Years War
C. V. Wedgwood · 1938 · Buy on Amazon
"It's sprawling and masterly and has the feel of a great novel with so many brilliantly drawn characters. I can't get enough of it."
Cover of Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"one in particular is Anna Karenina."
Rebecca West · Buy on Amazon
"It's this fascinating book of lectures she gave at Yale in the 1950s about the relationship between the individual and authority as read through literature. It's just so funny and right even when it's wrong."
Leslie Fiedler · Buy on Amazon
"Leslie Fiedler's sublime cycle of books Love and Death in the American Novel, What Was Literature? and Waiting for the End should be mandatory reading in all classrooms of serious literature. Totally mind-shaking stuff."
Cover of Monsters
Claire Dederer · Buy on Amazon
"I was reading Claire Dederer's Monsters and found out that Jenny Diski was Doris Lessing's foster daughter! I was so shocked, I stopped reading."
Cover of Germinal
Émile Zola · Buy on Amazon
"I am in the midst of reading all of Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels, and after I finish La Bete Humaine, I will read Germinal."

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