Go Gator and Muddy the Water, by Pamela Bordelon (1999)
I ran into this book about someone I’d never heard of while spending the afternoon at a café. Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston fr...
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Between the Assassinations, by Aravind Adiga (2008)
Adiga managed the impressive feat of winning the 2008 Booker for his first published novel, The White Tiger (2008), which success allowed him to easily find ...
Lullabies for Little Criminals, by Heather O’Neill (2006)
I’m not sure what it says about our society that this book was so well received – among many other honours, it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Lite...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid (2007)
This is an excellent book, one that could only have been written by a South East Asian who had lived in the West for years, and who both loved that culture a...
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge (2001)
Vinge was one of the last SF authors I read. I was deeply into the genre as a teenager, and read my way through massive piles of the stuff late at night when...