Pagoo
by Holling Clancy Holling
MADE-UP
Nostalgia time! As I was growing up, there were few books more holy on the shelves of my naturalist mother (or her naturalist mother) than Holling's illustrated tale of a hermit crab making his way in... (Tom)
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
by Paul Broks
TRUE
This is a book framed by grief—Broks's wife died of cancer in middle age—but it is not the usual memoir of loss. Broks has long been a scientist of consciousness, and he sees death, as well as the mir... (Tom)
The Reservoir Tapes
by Jon McGregor
MADE-UP
One of my favorite books from last year was the Booker-longlisted Reservoir 13. Although it didn’t win, it was such a phenomenon in Britain that the BBC commissioned McGregor to write a series of comp... (Liz)
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