For many of us, reading is like taking a holiday. But this week, we dive into true literary holidays as we discuss some of our favorite bookish destinations, as well as a few that are on our bucket lists. Where are your top literary destinations?

Shownotes

Books

* Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, by Heather Clark

* The Bridge of Beyond, by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated by Barbara Bray

* Shady Hollow, by Juneau Black

* The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Michael R. Katz

* War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs

* Divorcing, by Susan Taubes

* Transit, by Anna Seghers, translated by Margaret Bettauer Dembo

* Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante, translated by Jenny McPhee

* The Expendable Man, by Dorothy B. Hughes

* Thus Were Their Faces, by Silvina Ocampo, translated Daniel Balderston

* Motley Stones, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Isabel Fargo Cole

* Rock Crystal, by Adalbert Stifter, translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Marianne Moore

* Temptation, by János Székely, translated by Mark Baczoni

* Mary Olivier: A Life, by May Sinclair

* Hons and Rebels, by Jessica Mitford

* Virgin Soil, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett

* The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint

* The Moon and the Bonfire, by Cesare Pavese, translated by R.W. Flint

* Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole

* The Shining, by Stephen King

* Carrie, by Stephen King

* ‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King

* Centennial, by James Michener

* Augustus, by John Williams

Other

* PEG the Book Prize Addict’s Youtube

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