A list of delightful books
The more stuff you love the happier you will be.― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays
If you need more stuff to love, yesterday I wrote about TV shows and movies that bring me delight. Here, I want to share some books that brought me delight. They aren't necessarily the top books, but ones that I remember fondly:
Graphic novels
- The Moon is Following Us by Daniel Warren Johnson, Riley Ross, and Mike Spicer
- Gotham Central by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, and Michael Lark
- Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne
- Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba
- Superman for All Seasons by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
- The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
- Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory
- Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra
- Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
- Ms Marvel by G. Willow Wilson
**Prose books*
- Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville (if you can stomach a long read!)
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- There There by Tommy Orange
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Audiobooks
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, read by Lee Horsley
- The Martian by Andy Weir, read by Will Wheaton
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, read by John Lee
- Endurance by Alfred Lansing, read by Simon Prebble
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown, read by Tim Gerard Reynolds