Hello again! Here are my latest recommendations, in no particular order:

Zero at the Bone, by Christian Wiman

City of Refuge, by Tom Piazza

Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout

Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Fourth String by Janet Pocorobba

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

And Martin recommends:

An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn

True Grit by Charles Portis

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

If you want a good read, try Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. It’s certainly not one of her best books, but it is a good story. I went back and reread Bel Canto and These Precious Days. Magical.

Keep reading!