Shaker Constant Comment emails: "I was wondering if we could re-do a previous question. And that is: I would love to hear Shakers' recommendations—one each—for their favorite fiction and non-fiction books. (Maybe, too, they could include a line of what it's about or why it appealed to them.) I think we last did this a year or so ago and I got some great non-fiction suggestions."
So, Shakers: What one fiction and one non-fiction book would you recommend as personal favorites?
There are probably about 20 of each I recommend with regularity, but the first of those I saw when glancing at my bookshelf were Toni Morrison's Beloved, an insanely brilliant and life-changing novel which I've read like ninety zillion times, and Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation, which is a devastatingly funny account of her travels around the country making pilgrimages to presidential assassination spots.
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