The Rings of Saturn
1995 · 304 pages
Sebald walks the Suffolk coast, and each mile opens onto herring fleets, the wandering skull of the physician Thomas Browne, a town swallowed by the sea. Essayists have spent thirty years imitating this.
★ 6.7
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Lincoln
1995 · 714 pages
The standard one-volume Lincoln, and the method is severe: Donald allows him only the information he actually had when he acted. Out of it comes colossal ambition joined to a fatalist's passivity.
★ 5.9
Blindness
1995 · 352 pages
One driver stops at a traffic light and cannot see. Within days the city is blind and quarantined, and one woman who kept her sight watches how fast people stop being people.
★ 5.8
A Fine Balance
1995 · 603 pages
A widow takes in two tailors fleeing caste violence and a student, and under Indira Gandhi's Emergency the four become a family. Mistry lets you love them before the sterilization camps arrive.
★ 5.7
Dreams From My Father
1995 · 453 pages
Written at thirty-three, Obama's account of being the son of a Kenyan he met once runs from Hawaii to Jakarta to a Chicago organizing job, and ends at that father's grave.
★ 5.0