Ten Books I Recommend A few friends have asked me for book recommendations. I can strongly recommend these books from last year’s reading. I enjoyed them a lot. I also included my own book, Pink Flamingos, which I finished translating last summer. Happy reading! The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami: a fascinating story of the Spanish conquest of America (landing in what is now St. Petersburg, Florida) by a Morrocan slave, whose own story is fascinating. The book shows how he r