To celebrate
Wild's place as
#1 bestseller at this store in 2013, I've decided to make a list of some of the great books Cheryl Strayed mentions in her memoir. On her hike from the Mojave Desert all the way to Washington State, Strayed collects books to read in her tent, and against her spiritual judgment, she burns each one after finishing it to reduce the weight of her hiking pack. (Don't try this at home!)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Vintage Books, $14.00)
The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich (W W Norton, $14.95)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage Books, $15.95)
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $18.00)
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout (New York Review of Books, $14.95)
Grace Gordon, February 2014
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