Nice Passages From

I like collecting excerpts from books. It’s been a while since I’ve updated them but here they are.

2021

• The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver — March 31

• The Plague, by Albert Camus — March 31

• How to Think, by Alan Jacobs — March 31

• Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong (a compilation of essays) — March 31

2020

• Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren — May 24

• How to Catch a Mole, by Marc Hamer — May 24

• Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams — May 24

• The Scar: A Personal History of Depression and Recovery, by Mary Cregan — May 19

2019

• The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan — November 11

• The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball — November 11

• Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli — November 11

• Let Me Not Be Mad, by A.K. Benjamin — November 11

• Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer — November 11

• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver — November 11

• The Medusa and the Snail, by Lewis Thomas — March 14

• The Gigantic Beard that Became Evil, by Stephen Collins — March 14

• Phantoms on the Bookshelves, by Jacques Bonnet — March 14

• Federer and Me, by William Skidelsky — March 14

• Notes on a Thesis, by Tiphaine Rivière — February 1

• The Circuit, by Rowan Ricardo Phillips — January 28

• The Shadow of the Wind, The Circuit, Wonder Boys, and The Lathe of Heaven — January 28

2018

• Passing for Human, by Liana Finck — November 11

• Outline, by Rachel Cusk — November 11

• Time Was, The Botany of Desire, and The Milk-Lady of Bangalore — October 11

• The Overstory, by Richard Powers — August 8

• Ex Libris, and, At Large and at Small, by Anne Fadiman — June 22

• Ursula K. Le Guin — June 4

• Greenland and Frederick Backman — June 4

• The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui — May 2

• The Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin — April 12

• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, by Mason Currey — March 11

• Autumn, by Karl Ove Knausgaard — February 23