Who is that? Janet Bailey, co-owner of Barbara’s Bookstores, is an avid reader. Here, she’s got you covered and shares her personal list of favorites for those staying safe at home. Jan will revise her list from time to time, so please check back!
RECENT READS
The Splendid and the Vile | Eric Larson
Severance | Ling Ma
One of Us Is Lying | Karen McManus
Capital and Ideology | Thomas Piketty
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over | Alison Roman
The Gift of Forgiveness | Katherine Schwarzenegger
In Five Years | Rebecca Serle
A Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
RECOMMENDS
DYSTOPIA
- Old: The Stand | Stephen King
- New: Boy and his Dog at the End of the World | C.A. Fletcher
- Reread: Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel
THRILLER
- Old: Our Kind of Traitor | John Le Carre
- New: Red Lotus | Chris Bohjalian
- Reread: In the Woods | Tana French
MEMOIR
- Old: Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby
- New: Educated | Tara Westover
- Reread: A House in the Sky | Amanda Lindhout
HISTORY
- Old: The Swerve | Stephen Greenblatt
- New: Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe
- Reread: Devil in the White City | Erik Larson
DEATH
- Old: Death of Ivan Ilyich | Leo Tolstoy
- New: Dear Edward | Ann Napolitano
- Reread: Mortality | Christopher Hitchens
SCIENCE
- Old: Chaos: Making A New Science | James Gleick
- New: Mama’s Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions | Frans de Waal
- Reread: Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot
RELIGION
- Old: God: A Biography | Jack Miles
- New: Why Buddhism is True | Robert Wright
- Reread: Zealot | Reza Aslan
BIOGRAPHY
- Old: Koba the Dread | Martin Amis
- New: Born a Crime | Trevor Noah
- Reread: Barbarian Days | William Finnegan
FICTION
- Old: The Magus | John Fowles
- New: Olive, Again | Elizabeth Strout
- Reread: Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel
CLASSICS
- Old: The Road | Cormac McCarthy
- Old: Down and Out in Paris and London | George Orwell
- Old: Woman in White | Wilkie Collins
