Book Recommendations

The Lottery and Other Stories — Shirley Jackson

Beautiful world, where are you — Sally Rooney

“So of course in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it…

Recollections of Things to Come — Elena Garro

I was in awe from page one. How could I not, when one of the book’s first lines…

Pachinko — Min Jin Lee

Learning about a reality different from our own is one of the many gifts of reading. Especially because in the end it…

The Woman Destroyed — Simone de Beauvoir

This book is comprised of three stories: “The Age of Discretion”, “The Monologue” and…

Beloved — Toni Morrison

‘Death by a thousand cuts’ was a form of torture and execution practiced in China for almost a thousand years — it…

Giovanni’s room — James Baldwin

This story starts at the end. The main character, David, is in front of a window at a house in the South…

Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo

Pedro Páramo is undoubtedly a classic of Mexican literature. Ever since its publication in 1955, it has enthralled…

The Story of My Teeth — Valeria Luiselli

This is a book unlike any other I have read. As I turned the pages, I found myself…