Recs if you like The Book of Laughter and Forgetting...

i can’t stop noticing bowl of mac & cheese titles. everywhere

Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.

Various titles, from Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Baltic, & Balkan authors.

Every book or author mentioned in Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being” in one convenient place

A list to deepen one’s understanding of cross-literary conversation from a 21st century author.

I created this list in the spirit of one of the central themes of the novel, that being that literature is a conversation through space and time. Writing is a kind of time travel, if only just to the future, and reading is one to the past.

(In Werner Herzog voice)