Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
n this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share what they have been reading recently. This month, recommendations include a buzzy debut novel about Victorian sexuality, a moving essay collection and a study of Charles Dickens. Tell us in the comments what you have been reading.For me, this month’s reading was dominated by an excellent debut. Tom Crewe’shas generated much buzzy praise, full of comparisons to Forster and Hollinghurst. All this applause is well deserved.
In conversation with McPherson’s nonfiction, I’ve been rereading Yiyun Li’s hybrid of memoir and literary criticism,. Sometimes, books can be like gifts, and these ruminations about the author’s struggle with suicidal depression and her sustaining readings of William Trevor, Elizabeth Bowen and Katherine Mansfield, do feel like valuable and intimate letters from a brave and honest friend.
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