• If you can afford it (both financially and time-wise), buy books from independent bookstores - https://bookshop.org/ - instead of Our Great Overlord ™️  Amazon
• Good way to discover books are:
  • book awards - Booker Prize, National Book Award, NYTimes guides, NYRB, Pulitzer Prize
  • independent bookstore staff picks - McNally Jackson, Greenlight Bookstore, Community Bookstore, Books are Magic, Strand
  • book review aggregators such as Goodreads and Book Marks
• "Solid" authors whose works are highly likely to be good imo = Paul Auster, David Foster Wallace, David Sedaris, Rachel Cusk, Teju Cole, George Saunders, Jonathan Franzen, Tom Wolfe, Philip Roth, Haruki Murakami, Dave Eggers. Lots of men I know...rip
• Denseness Score goes from 1-5 with 5 being the most dense. For reference, 1 would be a book like "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng while 5 would be "Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust
• I debated whether to include the Recommended? boolean. Recommendations are and should be personal and tailored to the inquirer.
• You'll notice both Fiction and Literature tags - those are my bets for whether we'll remember or care about these books in the time to come (literature= yes, fiction = not so much)
• My favorite, classical books of all time are East of Eden (John Steinbeck) and The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
• If you have book recommendations for me, PLEASE send them to me - ceceliashao2016 [at] gmail.com (or via Twitter)

Cece's Library

Reading list:

• Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts"
• Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle"
• Katie Zambeno's "Drifts"
• Karl Ove Knausgard "My Struggle"
• The Complete Memoirs of Pablo Neruda
• "Such a Fun Age"
• Lauren Groff's "The Matrix"
• Joy Williams "Harrow"