First Rule of Book Club
Some books I love & recommend
The Post-Office Girl
– Stefan Zweig
All Men Are Mortal
– Simone de Beauvoir
Job
– Joseph Roth
The Wall
– Marlen Haushofer
The Book of Strange…
– Michel Faber
Siddhartha
– Hermann Hesse
Kindred
– Octavia E Butler
The Woman Destroyed
– Simone de Beauvoir
I Who Have Never…
– Jacqueline Harpman
The Song of Kieu
– Nguyễn Du
Travels with My Aunt
– Graham Greene
Blindness
–José Saramago
Wonderful Fool
– Shusaku Endo
Stoner
– John Williams
Steppenwolf
– Hermann Hesse
The Sparrow
– Mary Doria Russell
East of Eden
– John Steinbeck
A Woman
– Sibilla Aleramo
The Winter of Our…
– John Steinbeck
The Persian Expedition
– Xenophon
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My books
I write about typography and the history of books. My forthcoming book, Remarkable Renaissance Books (October 24, 2025), takes a closer look at groundbreaking and beautiful books from the early centuries of European printing. My first non-fiction book is a collection of short stories tentatively titled, The Book of Hours.
Typographic Firsts
(2021) Bodleian Library
Remarkable Renaissance Books
(Oct. 2025) Bodleian Library
The Book of Hours
(TBA)
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