Literary Gollums that wouldn’t let anyone take away our preciouses. A few voices finally managed to cut through the noise and set the record straight, but the manic frenzy had already exposed readers for what we really are: possessive lunatics who could let go of a lot of things, but refused to part with our books.
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The literary internet exploded: “You can have my books when you pry them from my cold dead hands!” Blogs and opinion pieces proliferated, full of indignant readers decrying this proclamation. But in the game of telephone that is the internet, something got misinterpreted somewhere and everyone assumed she meant everyone should only have 30 books. But she also acknowledged that “the act of picking up and choosing objects is extremely personal” and that people should go with their gut when it comes to their books-because unlike other clutter, books can serve as conduits for knowledge and imagination. In keeping with her philosophy, Marie Kondo shared that she keeps her collection of books to “about thirty volumes at any one time,” recommending to her readers and viewers that they do the same. Everyone buzzed with this downsizing energy, until they discovered an aspect of the KonMari Method that didn’t spark any joy whatsoever. I watched this obsession sweep through my social media feeds, my friends posting pictures of to-be-donated loot and freshly organized homes. With the recent release of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, suddenly everyone was following her mantra, clutching household items to see if there was a spark and, if not, cathartically discarding them.
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See Also: Last month’s list.īefore her Netflix series, patron saint of minimalism Marie Kondo first entered our lives through her best-selling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, teaching hoarders and people struggling to clean house how to let go of objects that didn’t bring them joy. This month’s near misses included: The Golden State, The Water Dancer, How to Be an Antiracist, Quichotte: A Novel, and The Dutch House. Next month, after our Year in Reading concludes, we’ll likely see a whole batch of new books on this list. Fellow Millions staffer Lydia Kiesling called Price’s book “a gripping, atmospheric, heart-breaking, almost-ghost story,” and added that, “Not since Stephen King’s Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life.” Adam O’Fallon Price’s novel The Hotel Neversink holds ninth position. Meanwhile a Millions staffer joins our list as this month’s true newcomer. Likewise, Helen Phillips’s The Need returns to our list after taking a two-month hiatus among the “near misses.” Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport made the list in September after being shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize. It’s the first appearance for each author.įilling two of those spaces is a pair of books that had been on our list previously, but fell off between then and now. Joining Farnsworth in the Hall of Fame are two novels: Halle Butler’s The New Me and Sally Rooney’s Ordinary People.
(Although maybe you could make a case for Marie Kondo’s book, which made it in 2015.) This is the second time author Ward Farnsworth has reached the Hall: in October 2011, he did so with Classical English Rhetoric. The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s TaleĪfter six months of smashing success on our list, The Practicing Stoic surely becomes the first philosopher’s resource to grace our Hall of Fame. Below you’ll find our Millions Top Ten list for November.ĭrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead By looking at our Amazon stats, we can see what books Millions readers have been buying, and we decided it would be fun to use those stats to find out what books have been most popular with our readers in recent months.
We spend plenty of time here on The Millions telling all of you what we’ve been reading, but we are also quite interested in hearing about what you’ve been reading.
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