More Books to Read

Man in the Woods by Scott Spencer: On a drive from NYC to the upstate town where Paul and Kate share a lovingly restored 18th-century farmhouse, he stops for a quiet moment and stumbles on a stranger abusing his dog. Words escalate to blows, and in a nightmarish split second paul becomes a murderer.

Villette by Charlotte Bronte: Its plot lacks the clean lines of Jane Eyre, but this is the richer, more daring achievement. Lucy Snowe is a lonely young Englishwoman teaching in a provincial Belgian boarding school, but seethes with unspoken love.

The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion: Memoir about the year after her husband's death.

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan