Who recommends it
- Rob KutnerInterview
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, a heart-wrenching tale about the lives of real Mumbai slumdwellers. Every tiny item in their life is a struggle and in constant danger of being swept away. I still think about these people, and I’d like to think it helps me bring a grounded attitude towards my navigation…
- Naomi DuguidInterview
I love the nineteenth century novels from France and Russia, again the classics known to all, such as Madame Bovary and A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I’d also like to mention Barchester Towers by Anthony…
- Rolf PottsInterview
West With the Night by Beryl Markham, The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby, Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron, The World by Jan Morris, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier, Mississippi Solo by Eddy L. Harris, Passage to…
- Joseph MazurInterview
Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, A Woman in Berlin, Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre, and Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier.
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War and Peace
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