Editors’ Spring Reading Recommendations on Kindle
The bloom of flowers is one joy of spring; another is the rich selection of new books. The Kindle editors have hand-picked a selection of spring reading recommendations that include new blockbusters, quirky fiction, compelling memoirs, romance, history, and books for kids. Here are five books from the selection that are especially inspiring, challenging or entertaining:
The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen
Welcome to Walls of Water, North Carolina, a place of deeply held superstitions and the hometown of nature-lover Willa Jackson and socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood. When Willa and Paxton become embroiled in a solving a mystery, they make an unlikely friendship. Strangely magical happenings, romance, rivalries, and a skeleton unearthed beside a peach tree combine with smooth storytelling to make this book easy to devour.
A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism by Peter Mountford (April 12th)
Driven by the prospect of a large bonus, hedge-fund newbie Gabriel goes to Boliva to get information on the president-elect’s plan to nationalize resources. He’s soon entangled in love, a growing web of lies, and his own misguided opportunism that will force him to make a decision between between morality and success. This vivid debut novel is highly entertaining and deeply informative about our own relationship with money and success. (Available for pre-order).
Nomad Codes by Erik Davis
Erik Davis has a gift for exploring our subcultures and making sense of them in a larger context. Some of the fringe groups these essays explore include Star Trek fans, Burning Man festival goers, transvestites, practitioners of paganism, and the occult, UFOlogists, and musicians. Davis writes with intellectual subtlety, wit, and unbridled curiosity.
House of Prayer No. 2: A Writer's Journey Home by Mark Richard
A master of pulling the reader through with urgency, short-story writer Mark Richard’s new memoir tells his life story, narrating in second person. After reading the first pages, readers will care deeply for Richard as a child struggling and bedridden with a hip deformity. Growing up he manages to work jobs as a fishing trawler deckhand, ditch digger, aerial photographer, private investigator, foreign journalist, bartender, and unsuccessful seminarian. Now, as a writer he’s elevated the genre of memoir.
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
With her trademarks of irony and wry insights, Sarah Vowell takes aim at the Americanization of the once autonomous, self-governed islands of Hawaii. Vowell chronicles how a rich native culture got caught between Christianity, imperialism, and other forces that ultimately lead to its implosion. The history of the 50th state features a cast of beguiling, appealing and tragic characters.
See a larger selection of new spring books in our spring reading recommendations.
--Paul Diamond
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