Anonymous asked:

Hi! I stumbled upon this through mutual friends of ours. I too spent the first four years of my life in China and went to Dartmouth for undergrad. I find your photos, book selections, quotations and outfits remarkable and I was wondering if you have a list of favorite books you could share? Much appreciated (:

It’s a unique combination we share, 4 years in China + 4 years at Dartmouth! Picking favorites among books is so difficult; mine have the tendency to shift all the time. Perhaps given our similar backgrounds, you’ll appreciate these 5 classic stand-bys. But in general, I like to recommend specific authors, rather than specific books; it gives readers greater leeway to poke around and find something that sounds interesting on a personal level. Some of my favorite authors: Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Steven Millhauser, Shirley Hazzard, Gustave Flaubert, Paula Fox, Richard Yates, Christine Schutt, Vladimir Nabokov.