Katie's Book Recommendations
Reading this as a teenager forever changed the types of books, movies, and art I fell in love it. For over ten years I've kept this on my shelf and return to it over and over, always discovering something new.
If you love Murakami this collection of stories will deliver with talking cats, jazz music, and the Beatles. These seven stories follow various lonely men and their stories.
A heartbreakingly stunning memoir. Mailhots's brutal honesty and transparency about her mental health and time spent in and out of a hospital. Mailhot takes her painful memories and opens herself up to the reader.
A stunning and timely novel about love, death, and various stories of immigration both physical and spiritual. We follow Isabel and Martin, a newlywed couple visited by Omar, Martin's dead father on the day of their wedding.
An excellent creepy little novella with echoes of The Shining. A screen writer, his wife and daughter rent a house in the secluded mountains of Germany, but the house and town are not what they seem.
Imagine if The Road by Cormac McCarthy were pre-apocalyptic. A father a son and a journey. Census is a beautiful tale about a fathers unconditional love for his son and his fears of letting him go.