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Give The Gift Of A Good Book
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items This is a list of reads for holiday season. They are not necessary holiday themed – more-so good reads for winter. This collection is a mix of striking, thought-provoking reads perfect for gifting to the readers in your life.
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kaji...
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder a book by Asako Yuzuki and Polly Barton
It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North's watchtowers. A young French Korean wom...
Winter in Sokcho a book by Elisa Shua Dusapin and Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Rachel Cusk's second novel is a ruthless, surprising story of work, gender, and control. Ralph Loman is working in an unsatisfying job at a free London newspaper when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly c...
The Temporary a book by Rachel Cusk and Mitzi Angel
In Saving Agnes, Agnes Day--subeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire--has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by the m...
Saving Agnes a book by Rachel Cusk
In Morrison's acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove--an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will ...
The Bluest Eye a book by Toni Morrison
At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone's attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean father's...
Your Love Is Not Good a book by Johanna Hedva
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsom...
Sunburn a book by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating hi...
Intermezzo a book by Sally Rooney
This one a bit weird, gross, and fucked up. The spellbinding story of a young woman's dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer In their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close--unna...
First Comes Summer a book by Maria Hesselager and Martin Aitken
Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer's group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leav...
Perfume and Pain a book by Anna Dorn
In "Naked," David Sedaris's message--alternately rendered in "Fakespeare, " Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek--is the same: pay attention to me.
Naked a book by David Sedaris
One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three "immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion" (The Sunday Herald Times...
The Woman Destroyed a book by Simone de Beauvoir
A semi-autobiographical novel, this book follows the life of a young woman named Jacaranda who navigates the bohemian and artistic circles of Los Angeles and New York. The story explores themes of self-discovery, ambition, and the pursuit of pleasure...
Sex and Rage a book by Eve Babitz
A collection of nine short stories, "Black Swans" spans the 1960s to the 1990s, offering a retrospective look at Babitz's experiences and the cultural shifts she witnessed. The stories cover a range of themes, from love and loss to the changing socia...
Black Swans: Stories a book by Eve Babitz and Stephanie Danler
This novel tells the story of two women, Sophie and Lou, as they navigate their lives in Los Angeles. It delves into themes of friendship, identity, and the pursuit of happiness amidst the city's eclectic and often superficial culture.
L.A. Woman a book by Eve Babitz
Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly di...
Play It as It Lays (Second Edition, Revised) a book by Joan Didion and David Thomson