Those books deserve the spotlight, tooso here, EW staffers recommend the best-kept secrets of their bookshelves.
I’m not kidding, though.
It’s one of those books that I’ve never been able to get out of my head.
Vintage; Picador; Simon Pulse; HarperCollins; Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
I won’t lie: It’s not always an easy read.
First the elephants struggle to live through a drought; then ivory poachers start to pick them off.
But you will finish it feeling like you’ve been living on the veldt with a herd of elephants.
If that’s not a literary accomplishment, I don’t know what is.
which is probably the most inspiring statement in American literature.
Let Mickey dress how he wants in the night kitchen!
(Bonus: The book was adapted intoa delightfully wacky short filmfeaturing sing-songy narration and a jazzy score.)
I think at the time of my first reading, I thought it was more CW (WB?)
Its a suspenseful story full of love, passion, loss and suffering.
Seriously, ask me anything about the Blockade, the Gulag, or the NKVD.
Ozekis commentary on cultural misunderstandings is equal parts haunting and utterly hilarious.
This was a laugh-cry book through and through.
Hell, I named a dog after a character in the book.
The YA read is about a 13-year-old girl named Jill who gets leukemia.
It was a bit sappythe cover line is Will Jill ever be well again?
William Morrow Paperbacks
