Welcome to FSG Book Keeping!

[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]

Welcome to FSG Book Keeping! We love books and hope you do too. Whether you discuss them here or take them back to your book club, we'd love to hear your thoughts on what you're reading. We'll have books to recommend, post interesting videos, feature exclusive content, invite authors to come chat with you, and give away plenty of books!

Tell us: What are your all-time favorite books?

[Ashley]

Thanks for the invite! Sounds like you have great things planned. :)

Oh, this question...the dreaded question. My list would have to include "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Milan Kundera), "Ethan Frome" (Edith Wharton), "The Fall" (Albert Camus), "The Westing Game" (Ellen Raskin), the Nancy Drew series, the Daily Show's "America: The Book," Colin Calloway's history texts, Jon Meacham's "The Art of Power" (which I haven't even finished yet but I'm drawing it out to savor it), E. M. Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front," Mark Abley's linguistic travelogue "Spoken Here," James Loewen's historical critiques...do I have room for Twain's entire publication list?

I read fiction, non-fiction, humor, philosophy, you name it. They all have places in my heart. It's impossible to pick favorites.

EDIT: My god, I forgot Flannery O'Connor! And Faulkner and Pynchon and Roth and Barthes and yep this is why we don't list favorites. :)

[Anna Janelle]

I, too, wanted to thank you for the invitation to join :)

I have far too many favorites to list, so I'm just going off the top of my head with ones that I've read recently or are on my perennial "re-read" list: Brady Udall's "The Lonely Polygamist," Nabokov's "Pale Fire," Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury," John Connelly's "The Book of Lost Things," Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One" (those are the ones that just immediately spring to mind) and anything by Zadie Smith, Jon Ronson, JK Rowling, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Chuck Palahnuik or Stephen King. I'm really all over the spectrum - with horror, literary fiction, historical fiction, YA, non-fiction - you name it, I read it :)

Can't wait to discuss things here - and meet some new readers!

[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]

Ashley wrote: "Thanks for the invite! Sounds like you have great things planned...."

Anna Janelle wrote: "I, too, wanted to thank you for the invitation to join..."

Welcome! Those are great lists of books. Hope you are able to poke around here and find something you like :)

[Denise]

Thank you so much for inviting me! It's hard for me to pinpoint one favorite book, but Gone With the Wind comes to mind. It was the first adult novel I read at age 13, and it is the only novel I read more than once.

[HeatherIlene]

Thank you for inviting me as well! A few of my favorites include Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]

Denise wrote: "Thank you so much for inviting me! It's hard for me to pinpoint one favorite book, but Gone With the Wind comes to mind. It was the first adult novel I read at age 13, and it is the only novel I re..."

Glad you're here! I also LOVE Gone With the Wind--I've read it a few times, but still have never seen the movie!

[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]

HeatherIlene wrote: "Thank you for inviting me as well! A few of my favorites include Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Truman Capote's [book:In C..."

Welcome! Another great list of books :) You guys are great readers.