Recommendations from our site
“Perhaps my favourite nonfiction book published this year was Jon Day’s Homing, a memoir of parenthood and pigeon fancying, and though that sounds like an odd combination, it works brilliantly.” Read more...
Editors’ Picks: Notable Books of 2019
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
Our most recommended books
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair -
Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov -
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
by Lauret Savoy -
The Periodic Table
by Primo Levi -
How Should A Person Be?
by Sheila Heti -
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ulysses S Grant and Elizabeth Samet (editor), Mark Bramhall (narrator)
