Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Min Jin Lee
I just started reading Pachinko for my company's new monthly bookclub. I'm reading Pachinko over Yiruma's album "Healing Piano". Yiruma is a modern Korean composer / pianist; the only reason I copied the album into a playlist is that a... (more)
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Water Dancer is one of the best books I've read. Ta-Nehisi Coates' language is beautiful and poetic (and perfect for me). I read the first half of this book slowly over a few months, mainly reading it during flights for work. Debussy's... (more)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
Edgar Allan Poe
Started reading this collection of Edgar Allen Poe short stories at the suggestion of my friend Gabe, my only other close friend who'd read all of House of Leaves. He was teaching Poe in a university in Russia and told me he felt some... (more)
The Overstory: A Novel
Richard Powers
Not sure why I started reading The Overstory to Mingus Plays Piano. Probably just pictured Mingus playing a big wooden piano, and since The Overstory is about trees... Overstory started out great and (I felt) dwindled a bit in the... (more)
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
The most engrossing book I've ever read. I first picked it up at my brother's apartment in Brooklyn years ago. Years before then (I can't remember when) he had told me of a book that is a book inside a book and that the word "house" is... (more)