THE READING LIST

Our editors’ fall picks — novels, memoirs and one cookbook to read like a novel. (All titles here are fictional examples.)

Essays on restSmall HoursMaren Holt
Gentle

Small Hours

Essays on rest

by Maren Holt

Short essays on sleep, Sundays and doing less.

Essays

A garden memoirThe Seed Keeper’s YearArthur Penn

The Seed Keeper’s Year

A garden memoir

by Arthur Penn

Twelve months in a Vermont seed garden.

Memoir

Recipes and storiesBread & SaltAda Morrow
Read it like a novel

Bread & Salt

Recipes and stories

by Ada Morrow

A cookbook with a story between every recipe.

Cookbook

A novelWhere the River BendsThomas Reade

Where the River Bends

A novel

by Thomas Reade

A family, a fishing cabin and forty years of summers.

Fiction

On craft and patienceThe Making of ThingsEliza Stone
Staff favorite

The Making of Things

On craft and patience

by Eliza Stone

Potters, weavers and woodworkers on why slow work matters.

Nonfiction

PoemsNight GardenLena Ashby

Night Garden

Poems

by Lena Ashby

Forty short poems for reading by lamplight.

Poetry

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