Eleven books about the peculiar miseries of wealth

Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Review.

She’s currently an assistant fiction editor at Agni. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Joyland, and elsewhere.

Courage's new novel is Bad Nature.

At Electric Lit she tagged eleven books that "reach beyond Gatsby and Chuzzlewit to illustrate the damage money can do to those who have it." One title on the list:

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

My Year of Rest and Relaxation [by Ottessa Moshfegh] has often been compared to Oblomov. Raised in privilege, the titular character barely leaves bed, lets his estate run to ruin, and spends most of his time lost in nostalgic dreams of childhood, when time seemed cyclical and safely repetitive. Unlike the nihilistic “superfluous men” of Russian classics or Moshfegh’s cynical sleeping beauty, Oblomov’s passivity is pathetic. His tragic incompatibility with a changing world leads others to both take advantage of him and pity him, but he remains terminally indecisive, stuck behind a “heavy stone … left on the narrow and pitiful path of his existence.”

Read about another entry on the list.

Oblomov is among Peter Mann's six novels with charming, workshy anti-heroes, Josh Cohen's ten top books about idleness, Jeff Somers's top five novels whose main characters are shut-ins, Judith Rosen's funniest books, John Sutherland's top ten overlooked novels, Alexandra Silverman's eight top examples of sloth in literature, Francine du Plessix Gray's five favorite fictional portraits of idleness and lassitude and Emrys Westacott's five best books on bad habits.

The Page 69 Test: Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov.

--Marshal Zeringue

What is Samantha M. Bailey reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Samantha M. Bailey, author of Hello, Juliet.

Her entry begins:

At ThrillerFest 2024, I was so happy to chat with my fellow Canadian author, Mailan Doquang. Mailan and I had connected on social media, but meeting in person is always such a fulfilling experience. I hadn’t yet had the chance to read her acclaimed debut, Blood Rubies, so I was very excited when she asked if I’d blurb the second book in the series, Ceylon Sapphires. It was a resounding yes, but I had no idea how exceptional a read it would be. Mailan is an architectural historian turned thriller writer, and her expertise and skill are on full display in this slick and dazzling novel. The feverish pace never lets up as the savvy Rune Sarasin cleverly attempts to...[read on]

About Hello, Juliet, from the publisher:

In a dark thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey, a TV reunion brings costars back for the drama and betrayals their viewers once craved―and this time, the stakes are deadly.

Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her first love and chosen family―her Hello, Juliet castmates. But she never discovered who turned her closest friends against her. Now the whole world knows her as #PoisonIvy.

A decade later, Ivy is horrified when a celebrity exposé thrusts the Hello, Juliet cast back into the limelight, dredging up the old scandals she hoped to escape. Desperate for a fresh start and some financial stability for her mother and manager, Ivy agrees to participate in a top-secret reunion episode.

Ivy’s poised for a comeback, but past betrayals become a present danger when she and the man who once broke her heart find their costar dead.

Determined to find justice and clear her name, Ivy must tear down the facades of cast and crew to uncover chilling secrets that have plagued the Hollywood set from day one. Or she could be the next to die.

Visit Samantha M. Bailey's website.

Q&A with Samantha M. Bailey.

Writers Read: Samantha M. Bailey (April 2024).

Writers Read: Samantha M. Bailey.

--Marshal Zeringue

Thirteen of the sexiest, most addictive romance novels

Emma Specter is the Culture Writer at Vogue, where she covers film, TV, books, politics, news and (almost) anything queer. She has previously worked at GARAGE and LAist and has freelanced for outlets including The Hairpin, Bon Appetit, them, the Hollywood Reporter and more. Her first book is More Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing and the Lust for ‘Enough’.

Specter lives in Los Angeles. In her spare time, she shops for vintage purses and bakes a lot of bagels.

For Vogue she tagged "the 13 best romance books to pick up now." One title on the list:

Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola

In my opinion, there aren’t enough campus rom-coms out there (college is the perfect place for romance! I mean, I didn’t experience any when I was there, but in theory!), which makes Bolu Babalola’s novel about a relationship advice expert and a fuckboy—excuse me, wasteman, in British parlance—who engage in a fake relationship that starts to become more real than either of them bargained for a particular delight.

Read about another entry on the list.

Honey & Spice is among Catriona Silvey's six romances about creatives in love.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 99: Chris Foss's "The Importance of Being Different"

Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Importance of Being Different: Disability in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales by Chris Foss.

About the book, from the publisher:

Understanding Oscar Wilde’s characteristically unique approach to writing difference

Over the course of his remarkable career, Oscar Wilde published two volumes of fairy tales: The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates. Both collections feature numerous stories with protagonists who may be said to be disability-aligned, owing to their pronounced physical differences.

In The Importance of Being Different, Chris Foss explores the way that Wilde’s stories problematically replicate many of the Victorian era’s typical responses to disability but also the ways they diverge, offering a more progressive orientation—both through more sympathetic identifications with disability-aligned characters and through a self-conscious foregrounding of the mechanisms of pity and the consumption of pain. The first ever monograph to examine Wilde’s work through a disability studies lens, this groundbreaking book encompasses all of his fairy tales as well as his writings during and after imprisonment. Even though Wilde unflinchingly represented the extent to which these peculiar bodies suffered rejection by society, he encouraged his readers to embrace them and to advocate for emotional responses that engage love and kindness toward both individual transformation and social change.

Learn more about The Importance of Being Different at the University of Virginia Press.

The Page 99 Test: The Importance of Being Different.

--Marshal Zeringue

Q&A with Jesse Browner

From my Q&A with Jesse Browner, author of Sing to Me: A Novel:

How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

My working title for Sing to Me was The Ruined City, but I got a lot of pushback for that from my early readers because, while it was a literal description of the novel’s main subject, it failed entirely to capture the story’s ultimately hopeful, optimistic thrust. It was also a very one-note title, whereas Sing to Me works on such a broad spectrum of meanings and intimations, at least one of which I can’t tell you because it’s a major spoiler. But song in general is woven into every aspect of the book – as incantation, as lullaby, as prayer, as a secret language of love and as the enigma of intercultural communication. My wife, my other early readers, my editor and I all came up with a wide and ridiculous variety of alternate titles – which is a very typical part of the process – but everyone agreed that Sing to Me struck precisely the right tone between lyricism and...[read on]

Writers Read: Jesse Browner (January 2012).

Writers Read: Jesse Browner.

Q&A with Jesse Browner.

--Marshal Zeringue

Four novels featuring cultural institutions & crime

Molly Odintz is the managing editor for CrimeReads and the editor of Austin Noir. She grew up in Austin and worked as a bookseller before becoming a Very Professional Internet Person. She lives in central Texas with her cat, Fritz Lang.

At CrimeReads Odintz tagged "four excellent recent and upcoming novels featuring cultural institutions and plenty of crimes." One title on the list:

Maha Khan Phillips, The Museum Detective

This book is so cool! As The Museum Detective begins, an archaeologist gets a call from the police to identify a body—specifically, a mummy preserved in a highly unusual sarcophagus that just about everyone would like to get their hands on, for profit or for politics.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 69: Nev March's "The Silversmith’s Puzzle"

Featured at the Page 69 Test: The Silversmith's Puzzle: A Mystery (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, 4) by Nev March.

About the book, from the publisher:

Captain Jim Agnihotri and Lady Diana Framji return to India as they investigate a murder amidst colonial Bombay's complex hierarchy in March's fourth mystery.

In 1894 colonial India, Lady Diana's family has lost their fortune in a global financial slump, but even worse, her brother Adi is accused of murder. Desperate to save him from the gallows, Captain Jim and Lady Diana rush back to Bombay. However, the traditional Parsi community finds Jim and Diana's marriage taboo and shuns them.

The dying words of Adi’s business partner, a silversmith, are perplexing. As Captain Jim peels back the curtains on this man's life he finds a trail of unpaid bills, broken promises, lies and secrets. Why was the silversmith so frantic for gold, and where is it? What awful truth does it represent?

Set in lush, late-Victorian India, Captain Jim and Diana struggle with the complexities of caste, tradition, and loyalty. Their success and their own lives may depend on Diana, who sacrificed her inheritance for love. Someone within their circle has the key to this puzzle. Can she find a way to reconnect with the tight community that threw them aside?

Visit Nev March's website.

Q&A with Nev March.

The Page 69 Test: Murder in Old Bombay.

My Book, The Movie: Murder in Old Bombay.

Writers Read: Nev March (October 2022).

The Page 69 Test: The Silversmith's Puzzle.

--Marshal Zeringue

Five of the best legal thrillers

Sally Smith is a barrister and KC who has spent all her working life in the Inner Temple. After writing a biography of Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, a renowned Edwardian barrister she retired from the bar to write fulltime. A Case of Mice and Murder, her first novel, was inspired by the historic surroundings in which she lives and works and by the centuries of rich history in Inner Temple Archives and Library. This is the first in a series introducing the amateur and unwilling sleuth Sir Gabriel Ward KC.

At the Waterstones blog Smith tagged five favotite legal thrillers ("sticking to what have become classics"). One title on the list:

A Certain Justice by P. D. James

A criminal barrister who is an expert on murder becomes the victim when she is found dead in her chambers wearing her blood-stained wig. Unlikeable and fiercely ambitious with a very colourful domestic life, there are plenty of candidates for murderer. Complex, extremely chilling and seriously good with a gut wrenching conclusion. And I really like the ambivalence of the title; what kind of certain is the justice in the book? Justice up to a point kind of ‘certain’, as the author suggests? Or absolutely ‘certain’ justice?

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 99: Pancho McFarland's "Food Autonomy in Chicago"

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Food Autonomy in Chicago by Pancho McFarland.

About the book, from the publisher:

Through eighteen years of field research, dialogues with colleagues, deep involvement in the food movement community in Chicago, and introspection, Pancho McFarland asks: Is the loosely connected network of Black and Indigenous land stewards and food warriors in Chicago an anticolonial force for the liberation of all our relations?

This examination of a sector of the food autonomy movement in Chicago provides important new ways of understanding race relations, gender, sexuality, spirituality, pedagogy, identity, and their importance to the dynamics of social movements. Additionally, the book explores how revolutionary culture, principles, and organization of American Indigenous, diasporan Africans, anarchist Mexicans and others have been adopted, adapted, or rejected in our food movement.

In this autoethnography of the food movement, McFarland argues that at our best we work to establish a new society like that theorized and enacted by Indigenous and Black anarchists. However, the forces of Wetiko (colonialism, capitalism, heteropatriarchy, and white supremacy) make the work of BIPOC food warriors difficult. Wetiko’s conceptual categories―including race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship―influence our worldviews and affect our behaviors. These limitations and our responses to them are captured in the dialogues and chapters of Food Autonomy in Chicago.

Learn more about Food Autonomy in Chicago at the University of Georgia Press website.

The Page 99 Test: Food Autonomy in Chicago.

--Marshal Zeringue

Nine books that center asexuality

Debbie Urbanski is the author of the novel After World (2023)—which was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, the Los Angeles Times tech, Booklist, and Strange Horizons—and Portalmania (2025). Her writing focuses on the intersections of horror, fantasy, science fiction, asexuality, memoir, and/or the planet. Over the past two decades, she's published widely in such places as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Best American Experimental Writing, The Sun, Granta, Orion, and Junior Great Books.

At Electric Lit Urbanski tagged nine "narratives [that] push against the traditional definitions of love that confine all of us." One title on the list:

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The narrator of All Systems Red (who calls itself Murderbot) is a wry, socially awkward, agendered, self-hacked security cyborg who enjoys watching soap operas (though it fast-forwards through the sex scenes due to boredom). Murderbot’s current assignment is to watch over a group of researchers on an unnamed planet. Soon some anomalies are noticed on the planetary maps, and Murderbot has to figure out what’s going on while trying to protect the team of scientists it has grown to care for. In less confident hands, the robot-as-asexual trope may have come off as irritating or wrong. But Murderbot is one of my favorite narrators ever. Funny, shy, self-aware, and occasionally snarky, it connects with people only in its own way, forming some moving and unique relationships. All Systems Red leans a little toward “hard” science fiction— think drones, implants, hubs, transports, hatches—but I still believe typical literary readers who don’t often read sci-fi can deeply enjoy this one.

Read about another entry on the list.

All Systems Red also appears among Lorna Wallace's ten best novels about Artificial Intelligence, Deana Whitney's five amusing AI characters who should all definitely hang out, Andrew Skinner's five top stories about the lives of artificial objects, Annalee Newitz's list of seven books about remaking the world, Tansy Rayner Roberts and Rivqa Rafael's five top books that give voice to artificial intelligence, T.W. O'Brien's five recent books that explore the secret lives of robots, Sam Reader's top six science fiction novels for fans of Westworld, and Nicole Hill's six robots too smart for their own good.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 69: Eva Gates's "Shot Through the Book"

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Shot Through the Book by Eva Gates.

About the book, from the publisher:

In the twelfth installment of the Lighthouse Library mysteries, Lucy McNeil is back on the case, but this time she’s on the case alone.

The upcoming YA book festival at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library is bringing in renowned authors from all over the world. When best selling author Todd Harrison unexpectedly visits librarian Lucy McNeil at her Outer Banks beach house after a meeting, she is puzzled by his presence, since they’re virtually strangers. After she steps inside to get him a drink, she’s shocked to discover that he’s been murdered on her deck in the few minutes she left him alone.

Not knowing why he wanted to meet with her in private, or how someone managed to kill him in the time it takes to make lemonade, Lucy is determined to help with the investigation and figure out what happened. WhenHeather Harrison, Todd’s widow, shows up in town, her motivations aren’t inspired by grief. She’s intending to use her husband’s tragic death to launch her candidacy for state senator and her first order of business is to go after the local police force–and Lucy herself.

Caught between an intrusive fan club mourning Todd, squabbling authors fighting for prominence in his absence, and a politically ruthless widow, Lucy must roll up her sleeves and and catch the killer before the chapter closes on justice.

Follow Eva Gates on Facebook, and visit Vicki Delany's website.

The Page 69 Test: Death By Beach Read.

Writers Read: Eva Gates (June 2022).

The Page 69 Test: Death Knells and Wedding Bells.

Writers Read: Eva Gates (June 2023).

Writers Read: Eva Gates (May 2024).

The Page 69 Test: The Stranger in the Library.

The Page 69 Test: Shot Through the Book.

--Marshal Zeringue

What is Jesse Browner reading?

Featured at Writers Read: Jesse Browner, author of Sing to Me: A Novel.

His entry begins:

You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue. This is already my second read. My hands-down favorite book of 2024. It reinvents the story of Hernán Cortés’ first week in Tenochtitlan and his meeting with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma – probably one of the most fateful encounters in world history, as the future of the entire New World hung on its outcome. Yet Enrigue treats it with irreverence, irony, broad (almost slapstick) humor and compassion for all its protagonists. For me, You Dreamed of Empires is the ideal model of the historical novel, adhering to...[read on]

About Sing to Me, from the publisher:

After the fall of Troy, an eleven-year-old boy sets off for the razed city when his father and sister vanish into the war zone; this "gorgeously drawn" novel offers an intimate vision of the most storied war in history, as seen through the eyes of a child. (Laird Hunt)

His family farm and the surrounding community now emptied by war, young Hani embarks on an epic quest – assisted by a brooding yet brilliant donkey – to find his lost sister in the ruins of Troy. Some war stories transcend time and circumstance, and so it is with the resourceful and heartbroken Hani, who must employ every bit of intelligence, every scrap of ingenuity, and ultimately every ounce of his spirit and humor to withstand the forces of civilization’s collapse.

Hani is no ordinary boy, however, and a character unlike any you’ve ever met. His interior world is one of startling depth and complexity. His insights into life, lives, and history are breathtakingly fresh. And his hope for survival—not a given, and in fact, less than likely—will propel you to the startling conclusion of this brief, elegiac, and singular work.

Writers Read: Jesse Browner (January 2012).

Writers Read: Jesse Browner.

--Marshal Zeringue

Ten top books for fans of "Sinners"

Brittany K. Allen is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn.

At Lit Hub she tagged ten books for fans of Sinners, the 2025 American musical horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. One title on the list:

Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom

LaValle is one of our strongest literary horror writers. The way he braids genres and subverts and honors magical tropes is consistently surprising. This disquieting Jazz Age tale follows a hustling musician who awakens a beast when he “delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens.” Expect Black magic.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Ballad of Black Tom is among Chase Dearinger's seven horror titles where the setting is a monster and Colleen Kinder's ten titles about chance encounters with strangers.

--Marshal Zeringue

Nose in a book: Amy Shearn

Who: Amy Shearn

What: Animal Instint by Amy Shearn

When: May 2025

Where: Politics and Prose, Washington DC

Photo credit: Diana Friedman

Visit Amy Shearn's website.

The Page 99 Test: How Far Is the Ocean from Here.

Writers Read: Amy Shearn (March 2013).

Q&A with Amy Shearn.

My Book, The Movie: Dear Edna Sloane.

The Page 69 Test: Dear Edna Sloane.

The Page 69 Test: Animal Instinct.

Writers Read: Amy Shearn.

My Book, The Movie: Animal Instinct.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 99: Steve Gowler's "Thoughts that Burned"

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Thoughts That Burned: William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery by Steve Gowler.

About the book, from the publisher:

In Thoughts That Burned, Steve Gowler showcases the life of William Goodell, one of the most significant leaders of the antebellum antislavery movement. Between 1826 and 1864, Goodell edited more than a dozen reform newspapers and played a leading role in the formation of several organizations, including the American Anti-slavery Society, the Liberty Party, the American Missionary Association, and the Radical Abolition Party. His 1852 book Slavery and Anti-slavery was the first comprehensive history of the antislavery movement written by an American.

Convinced that the logic of slavery needed to be investigated and laid bare, Goodell explored the institution's deep structures. Whereas many abolitionists based their arguments on the inhumane consequences of enslavement, Goodell analyzed the legal and psychological relations constituting the slave system. At the heart of this analysis was his close reading of Southern slave codes and of the United States Constitution. He argued that the Constitution, properly understood, is incompatible with slavery and should be used as an instrument of emancipation. Among those influenced by his constitutional hermeneutic was Frederick Douglass, who described Goodell as the man "to whom the cause of liberty in America is as much indebted as to any other one American citizen." Thoughts That Burned is the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary thinker, whose powerful political and theological arguments grounded abolition within the concept of human rights.

Visit Steve Gowler's website.

The Page 99 Test: Thoughts That Burned.

--Marshal Zeringue

Six great puzzle novels

K. A. Merson is a vaguely reclusive writer who lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, along with a patient spouse, a malevolent boxer dog, and an Airstream trailer.

The author's new novel is The Language of the Birds.

At CrimeReads Merson tagged six favorite puzzle novels, including:

The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall

Several years ago, I was taking a creative writing course and working on The Language of the Birds, when one of the instructors said that my work reminded them of The Raw Shark Texts. Clearly, I had to read it. And I loved it. Few books can tackle hefty topics such as memory, identity, and grief while doing so with such a unique storyline. A cat-and-mouse hunting expedition for a voracious memory-eating predator, this funny, emotional, page-turning thriller is equal parts Stephen King, Michael Crichton, and Franz Kafka. Conceptually brilliant, The Raw Shark Texts was Steven Hall’s first novel and won the Borders Original Voices Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Read about another puzzle novel on the list.

The Raw Shark Texts is among Jim Bob's top ten illustrated books for adults.

--Marshal Zeringue

Q&A with Jessica Guerrieri

From my Q&A with Jessica Guerrieri, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea:

How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea sets the tone before the first page. The cover’s striking image—water as both refuge and threat—mirrors the novel’s emotional stakes. The title speaks to being trapped between two impossible choices, something my protagonist, Leah, knows all too well. On the surface, she has it all: a handsome husband, three daughters, and a fresh start in a sleepy coastal town. But beneath that facade, she’s quietly unraveling—gripping tightly to the illusion of control, one drink at a time.

The "devil" can be read as addiction, guilt, or the crushing expectations of motherhood. The “deep blue sea” is both literal and symbolic: the beach town where Leah lives and surfs, and the murky depths of her own emotional landscape. It also hints at the secret she’s keeping from the O’Connor family—one that...[read on]

Visit Jessica Guerrieri's website.

Q&A with Jessica Guerrieri.

--Marshal Zeringue

Pg. 69: Catherine Ryan Hyde's "Michael Without Apology"

Featured at the Page 69 Test: Michael Without Apology: A Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde.

About the book, from the publisher:

A film student struggling with self-acceptance finally stops looking away from his traumatic past in a powerful novel by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.

Michael Woodbine was seven years old when a near-fatal fireworks accident scarred him and led to his placement in foster care. Now a college freshman, he is still trying to hide the effects of his trauma from his classmates, his adoptive family, and himself.

When Michael signs up for a film class, he meets Robert Dunning, a teacher who wears his own scars unapologetically. Robert encourages Michael to make a documentary that explores body image and self-perception. Michael places an ad seeking people who feel unattractive and rejected by society―and is surprised to learn that this is essentially everyone. Although some participants are recovering from injuries or surgeries, others are dealing with more everyday factors like aging or the changes to a body from giving birth.

As he collects these stories―and finally tells his own―Michael feels more connected to the world than he ever has before. But he knows his journey of self-acceptance has one more obstacle: his crushing doubts about why his birth parents wouldn’t fight to keep him.

Visit Catherine Ryan Hyde's website.

Q&A with Catherine Ryan Hyde.

The Page 69 Test: Brave Girl, Quiet Girl.

The Page 69 Test: My Name is Anton.

The Page 69 Test: Seven Perfect Things.

The Page 69 Test: Boy Underground.

The Page 69 Test: Dreaming of Flight.

The Page 69 Test: So Long, Chester Wheeler.

The Page 69 Test: A Different Kind of Gone.

The Page 69 Test: Life, Loss, and Puffins.

The Page 69 Test: Rolling Toward Clear Skies.

The Page 69 Test: Michael Without Apology.

--Marshal Zeringue

Eight titles exploring complicated feelings about ambition

Emma Pattee is a climate journalist and fiction writer. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and elsewhere.

Her debut novel, Tilt, is available now.

At Electric Lit Pattee tagged eight "contemporary novels that explore ambition in complicated, nuanced, and exciting ways." One title on the list:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Written in the form of a letter, The White Tiger tells the story of a Indian man who was born into incredible poverty and is now a self-made entrepreneur, and murderer. Aravind Adiga is one of my favorite writers, and this book is no exception. At turns a social critique of modern-day India, a meticulous satire of greed and striving, and an examination of ambition that comes from desperation but truly eats you alive. I read a review that called it an “anguishing howl of rage” about poverty and class inequity. I’d say that pretty much nails it.

Read about another novel on the list.

The White Tiger is on Nathan Go's list of eight novels with narrators who defy our expectations, Saskia Lacey's list of fifty incredible literary works destined to become classics, Louise Doughty's six best books list, Amy Wilkinson's list of seven top books with "white" in the title, Julia Stuart's list of five of the best stories about domestic servants, Stephen Kelman's top ten list of outsiders' stories, and is one of The Freakonomics guys' six best books.

The Page 69 Test: The White Tiger.

--Marshal Zeringue