I read a lot. Often times I'll have two or three I'm reading at the same time, so there are many I've read I really enjoyed. There is, however, one that really stands out. "The Greater Journey, Americans in Paris." by David McCullough. It's a recently published historical sketch of the whos and whys it took to stimulate art in the states starting at the turn of the 19th century. It's a 600 pager so it's nothing to sneeze at, but it's a page turner as well.

I get why some people avoid his novels – they can be challenging at points – but to me his short stories feel like vignettes distilled from his longer works.