Non-Fiction And A Pulitzer

Are Pultizers Boring?

I’ve been slow to finish a few books of late, probably because I wasn’t super inspired but here’s what I have been enjoying, or have enjoyed, very recently that I think you should know about.

Earlier

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Lamle Wellington recommended Homegoing to me (you, all of us!) in her edition of Well-Read and it immediately shot to the top of my to-read list. There’s so many incredible stories running through this novel and so much history to get lost in. From eighteenth-century Ghana to modern day America, Gyasi builds on each generation with so much colour and precision, it’s all quite addictive.

Funnily enough, I just finished Jennifer Egan’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winner, A Visit From The Good Squad, and I have to say, as far as interconnected, nested narratives go, Homegoing was way more insightful and arresting to me than The Goon Squad.

Now

I'm A Fan by Sheena Patel

I juuuuust started this but even five pages in I know I’ll be thinking about and quoting this book for a long time. (I’d heard good thing and it turns out, all the good things were accurate.)

Later

Blueberries by Ellena Savage

I have so much non-fiction on my list right now, I almost don’t no where to begin. But I do want to begin somewhere near Blueberries by Ellena Savage, find my to way to Come: A Memoir by Rita Therese, Notes To Self by Emilie Pine, This Might Be Too Personal: And Other Intimate Stories by Alyssa Shelasky, and end at Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer and Unwell Women by Elinor Cleghorn.

Enjoy!