The 2023 Top Ten

Another year, another top 10 list. In years past, I’ve tried to post five fiction and five non-fiction, however, this year my fiction list was so strong, it overtook all by one spot for non-fiction. Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandala What can I say about this book that hasn’t been said by so…

Station Eleven

Much of Emily St. John Mandel’s STATION ELEVEN takes place twenty years after the collapse of modern society due to a lethal and vicious pathogen named The Georgian Flu. The novel follows a group of survivors, dubbed “The Travelling Symphony”; a troupe of musicians and actors who commute from settlement to settlement performing Shakespeare alongside…