ET Read Home, a monthly reading list

For December, some history, some fiction, and some lighter Knausgaard

Paid subscribers get two extra issues a month. One of those this past year has been ET Read Home, suggestions of books to read right now. Some are relatively new releases, others are already published works that are timely or books that I’ve been thinking about for some reason or another and think you might find useful, too.

I am sure many of you will be traveling and/or trying to relax for the holidays, so here are some books that might be good for that.

If you’re looking to travel without traveling…

I reviewed this earlier this year so this is kind of cheating, but Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski is a trip through time and space (in particular, the space that is no longer known to any of its residents, really, as Eastern Europe).

If you want to read Karl Ove Knausgaard but the My Struggle books seem daunting…