Take a Holiday Break–or several

So after the presents are opened and the dishes are in the dishwasher, how will you spend your days leading up to the New Year? For some, these days are reserved for projects or fun with the kids. Others will doubless try to catch up on some reading. Here are books recommended by friends and myself:

These Precious Days, Ann Patchett

Beautiful Country, Qian Julie Wang

Cloud Kuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (of course!!)

You Should Have Known, Jean Hanff Korelitz

Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honoree Fanonne

Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead