Recommended Reading

A list of books recently read and reliably interesting: 

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Southern Cross the Dog, Bill Cheng
Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead
Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
The Marriage Plot: A Novel, Jeffrey Eugenides
The New Mind of the South, Tracy Thompson
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
What Are People For?, Wendell Berry