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What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
★★★★· Published 2016· 195 pages
A spare, intense novel about an American teacher's obsession with a young hustler in Bulgaria. Greenwell writes desire and shame beautifully.
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★ 5The Heart of Winter
Jonathan Evison
Ruth and Abe, nearly 70 years married, opposites who somehow made it work. A tender ode to the long haul and all the small forgivenesses it takes.
★ 5The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A boy in postwar Barcelona picks one book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and it upends his life. Gothic, bookish, and totally transporting.
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Graeme Simsion
A socially oblivious genetics professor designs a questionnaire to find a wife. Charming and very funny.