Books I love

Not a reading list or a ranking. These are the ones I keep going back to, with a line on why.

Fiction

  • Cover of War and Peace

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy · 1869

    The most epic and beautiful zooming out and zooming in on the brutality of war, the impenetrable force of human motives and the endurance and inseparable human heart from the human experience.

  • Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas · 1844

    Awakened in me hope when all felt hopeless.

  • Cover of A Confederacy of Dunces

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole · 1980