The Great Escape (Books)

Reading for me is not about escape.

You always read in interviews or memoirs that a person read to escape the world around them. For me, it has always been to learn more about the world, to investigate, even if I have been reading fiction.

And that’s why I usually lean towards non-fiction.

Though during the time of writing my book, it was fiction that saved me. I read as salvation. To get away from the facts, from the monotony of writing and rewriting something that had been with me for five years. And so I too escaped. Into some of the best books of my life.

I thought you might want to give them a try too. And for whatever reason you are reading, I wish you a pleasant journey.

Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Somerset Maugham: A Life
Jeffrey Meyers

Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion

Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True
Elizabeth Berg

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman

The KGB Bar Nonfiction Reader
Edited by Mark Jacobs

Everything Bad is Good For You: How Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter

The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold

Lucky
Alice Sebold

The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information – The Canadian Edition
David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen & Jane Farrow

Library: An Unquiet History
Matthew Battles

The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
Paul Auster

Adultery: A Novel
Richard B. Wright

Books On My Bedside Table

New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Bill Maher

Natasha and Other Stories
David Bezmozgis

Re-Reading Popular Culture
Joke Hermes

Saturday
Ian McEwan

Global Vegetarian Cooking
Troth Wells