Books for Your Gift List: Recommendations from Fordham English Faculty

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, this 2022 New York Times bestseller is “a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book.” (Simon & Schuster) Lenny Cassuto calls it “a combination of a historical novel and science fiction, all wrapped up as a love song to libraries.”

Bitter Medicine by Mia Tsai

English Department Chair Mary Bly calls this debut work, which centers on the relationship between a Chinese immortal and a French half-elf, “a paranormal novel with intelligent things to say about language, mythology, and love (not YA as that cover suggests)…”