Susan Minot's Reading List

""Caste," by Isabel Wilkerson, which shines a stunning light on racial issues from a new angle."

""Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest," by Wade Davis, which tracks the extremes of human behavior."

""A Judgement in Stone," by Ruth Rendell, a briskly and entertainingly told story of the evils of illiteracy masquerading as a murder mystery."

""Can You Forgive Her?," by Anthony Trollope (I listened to the audio), where I was delighted to find some metafictional narrative intrusion."

"People may have heard of it, but not enough: "Lives of the Saints" (1985), by Nancy Lemann … Nancy Lemann is an underappreciated comic genius."

""Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis," by Gerald Hanley. A beautiful stark book."

""Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy," by Darryl Pinckney. His is a brilliant mind which can make simple the complicated, then show how complex the simple."

"Dorothy Gallagher's "Stories I Forgot to Tell You." A slim memoir (love a slim book!) which is a meditation of writing, loving and grief."