Save this article to read it later.

Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.

Like most holidays, Valentines Day is a nationally recognized occasion to overdose on sugar and feel lonesome.

Article image

I do not fight the momentum.

Too late to undo?

Here are some eligible love interests for your appraisal.

The Weight of Snow by Christian Guay-Poliquin

A full 100 percent of this issues recommendations come fromthe spreadsheetwhere readers like you enter suggestions.

Matthias has been surviving on a combination of his wits, stone soup, and occasional deliveries of firewood.

The suspense is in the world-building, which you, reader, have to accomplish by inference.

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Whose house is Matthias squatting in?

What country is this?

Why did the power outage occur?

True Grit by Charles Portis

Why is everyone dying?

Will the narrator survive this winter?

Does evil lurk around the corner?

Article image

What does pemmican taste like?

The combination of haute bourgeois atmosphere and anthropological incision is euphoric.

Timelessness: a great quality in a novel.

Plot twist: It was actually published in1990!

Double plot twist: The author was once married to Kingsley Amis.

Ive never seen a novel that was so recklessly undermined by its own cover.

Do not judge this one by it.

It doesnt matter, really.

Its a salty-tongued tale of adventure thats why!

(Based on a sample size of Molly Young: Yes.)

Cauterize yourself on someproofthat a realASSHOLEcan make art that will smack the reservations right out of you?

Test-drive anIRRESISTIBLEdissection that explainswhy America is the way it is?

Giggle yourself sick with this classicNICKI MINAJprocedural?

Every editorial product is independently selected.

If you buy something through our links,New Yorkmay earn an affiliate commission.

More From This Series

Tags: