Everyone keeps asking us for a best-of-the-year list. We're not Oprah and this isn't our book club, but here's some titles enjoyed by PFB staff and regulars in 2015, not all of which were published in 2015. Go figure! If I hadn't worked 100+ hours this week I might be amiable to a longer exegesis; as it is, names, title(s) & you're on your own, or drop in & we'll bend your ear.
Elena Ferrante,
The Neopolitan Quartet
Vivian Gornick,
The Odd Woman and the City
Maggie Nelson,
The Argonauts
Anakana Schoefield,
Martin John
Emily St. John Mandel,
Station Eleven
Lucia Berlin,
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang,
In Real Life
Carrie Brownstein,
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Between the World and Me
Susan Musgrave,
A Taste of Haida Gwaii: Food Gathering & Feasting at the Edge of the World
& our first
PFB No-Prize: Aaron Peck,
Jeff Wall: North & West