My May rewind includes one of the best books I’ve read in the last decade (hint: striiiiiike!)
2012: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach – I can’t emphasise just how much I loved this book. Crazy love.
2013: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg – funny, sad, real.
2014: Fictitious Dishes by Dinah Fried – the perfect coffee-table book for literature-lovers.
2015: The Night Rainbow by Claire King – I still think about little Pea…
2016: Penelope by Rebecca Harrington – hilarious.
2017: The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman – grim but compelling.
The Night Rainbow cover is beautiful *__*
And the story is absolutely gorgeous.
Absolutely with you on The Art of Fielding.
Still a book I recommend to so many people.
So glad you loved The Art of Fielding…I did too! And I need to read The Middlesteins…I loved her 2 most recent books.
I raced to get her latest books because I loved The Middlesteins so much…. And of course, haven’t read them yet 😕 I really, really need to stop buying books!
When I saw The Art of Fielding in my favourite charity bookshop I pounced, knowing how much you loved it – since then, I have totally failed to read it. This post has reminded me to get to it!
I read and reviewed Fictitious dishes too. A fun read. And I really like The street sweeper. Perlman has such heart. Loved his Three dollars also, and Seven types. But Three dollars sticks.
The Art of Fielding and Night Rainbow- two of my favorites in the last decade! Harbach needs to get a new novel out. Or, I need to re-read Fielding.
I believe Fielding took him more than ten years to write – perhaps he’s going the Tartt route and aiming for a book a decade?!
I absolutely loved The Art of Fielding and really wish he’d come out with something else one of these days. Stop leaving us hanging, CHAD.