One of the best contemporary minds in theoretical physics presents an accessible tour of the mystery of time. It provides hints of metaphysics along with insights into how we perceive time and the reality of time, according to Rovelli’s research and collaborations.

I loved this personal and political story of three generations of women in a Hawaiian family, told from the community’s perspective. Loosely based on a real community that fought the construction of a Walmart on the Big Island.

A playful satire of the human world as seen through feline eyes. Our narrator watches his master’s foibles (napping all afternoon instead of working on a promised piece of writing) with the quizzical air of one perched above the rest. Elegant and often hilarious.

Farrah, a Black teen, is upset that she will have to move when her parents lose their house. She manipulates her way into staying with her best friend, Cherish, a Black girl adopted by rich white parents, but things become murky about who is using whom. Twisty and chilling!

From Algeria to France, three generations of a family grapple with war, identity, memory, and the legacies of colonialism. Evocative prose and vividly drawn characters make for a haunting story.

Just kidding. No one’s actually read “Gravity’s Rainbow.”

I often want to criticize Jane Austen but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader. Every time I read “Pride and Prejudice” I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

One wonders if “War and Peace” would have been as highly acclaimed as it was if it was published under its original name “War: What Is It Good For?”

Nothing cracks a turtle like Leon Uris