Monthly Staff Book Picks
Our book pick this month comes from new GWC Assistant, Emily! The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, was a finalist for the 2020 International Booker Prize and the National Book Award and is a surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss.
Check out our previous picks for further reading!
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong |
Untamed, Glennon Doyle |
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong |
Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar |
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi |
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens |
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez |
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishigur |
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer |
Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner |
The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Daves |
Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner |
The Traveling Cat Chronicles, Hiro Arikawa |
Why Didn't You Tell Me?, Carmen Rita Wong |
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls |
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh |
The Chosen and the Beautiful, Nghi Vo |
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng |
Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood |
Somebody's Daughter, Ashley C. Ford |