Christopher Harris's Book Recommendations

"Today’s random pick is House Of Leaves by Mark Danielewski — one of the few books I own bicoastally. It’s about a haunted house and it’s long and weird and the first time I read it I got completely obsessed and remember exactly where I was when I finished it."

"Today is a cheat because I didn’t pull it down randomly from The Shelves but rather just finished reading it for the first time, but it’s very good, sort of a purgatory stage play imagining Abe Lincoln in mourning through the perspective of ghosts who don’t know they’re ghosts."

"Today’s book cover is falling apart which shows how many times I’ve read it. “The Moviegoer” by Walker Percy. It’s just one of my faves. Binx Bolling and his search. Gets me every time."

"Today’s eyes-closed random grab is another great book of short stories… The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty. (It’s really almost a novel — the stories are interconnected, about the same town.) “Beware of a man with manners.”"

"Today’s book from the Shelves to read a bit of is from @stevealmondjoy, his very first collection, “My Life In Heavy Metal.” High recommendation from me, he’s a good man, plus check out his new novel “All The Secrets Of The World.”"

"Today’s book off the Shelves to read a bit of is the novel that coined the term: “Generation X” by Douglas Coupland. Slackers trying to strip away unnecessary things in the desert. If you’ve never read, I highly recommend."

"Today’s random Shelf grab is “This Must Be The Place” by Anna Winger, a conversational book that made me want to visit Berlin."

"@VittasNick Awesome! That makes me really happy, Nick. Jesus' Son is probably my favorite book in the world."

"When I did a Top 10 list for fave books a while back, “The Magus” by John Fowles was on it. It’s a magical humbling of a novel, an upper-crusty snob just getting *messed* with, I love it. (If you ever read it, get the 1977 Revised Edition, which is how Fowles intended it to be.)"

"Today’s random grab-and-read from The Bookshelves is a li’l ol’ 850-page American freakout, Underworld by Don DeLillo. If you’ve never read the first 60 or so pages (they were later sold separately as a novella) about the NY Giants Shot Heard Round The World, you should!"