5 books
Steve Hawk
A small nuclear device goes off beside a highway in West Virginia — low yield, few dead, and the first act of nuclear terrorism in history. Months later, on a rough stretch of Northern California coast, a surfer and lifeguard…
Tana French
The last Cal Hooper book. Rachel Holohan, about to be engaged to the son of the local big man, is found drowned in the river. Her father wants Cal to look into it, which is the last thing Cal wants,…
Maggie Stiefvater
June Hudson runs the Avallon, a grand hotel built over mineral springs in the West Virginia mountains, and she came up from the hollers to do it. In 1942 the State Department requisitions the place to intern Axis diplomats and…
Robert Macfarlane
It’s a book about company. Macfarlane’s argument is that an old path is a record of everyone who wore it, that walking one puts you in their company whether you want it or not, and that this does something to…
Bruce Chatwin
Chatwin went to central Australia to find out how Aboriginal songlines work — the invisible tracks across the country laid down by ancestral beings, sung into being, where the melody carries the shape of the land so a man can…
