Memoir
The Year of Magical Thinking
Didion's precise, unsentimental account of the year following her husband's sudden death.
Curated list · 6 books
On Memory & Loss
Memoir and fiction that hold grief and remembrance with great care.
These are not sad books so much as truthful ones. Choose according to your mood and your reserves.
Memoir
Crying in H Mart
A musician and writer reconnects with her Korean heritage through food in the wake of her mother's illness and death.
Literary Fiction
The Remains of the Day
An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
Science Fiction
Station Eleven
Years after a pandemic collapses civilization, a travelling troupe performs Shakespeare for scattered settlements, and old connections slowly surface.
Historical Fiction
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family make their lives in Japan across the twentieth century, held together by stubborn love and quiet endurance.
Science Fiction
Klara and the Sun
An Artificial Friend watches the world from a shop window and then from a family's home, learning what it means to love.