I really loved Everything is Illuminated for its fresh voice. The author writes about Eastern Europe from a very different perspective. There are several stories interwoven in this book that make it challenging and fascinating to read. His second book, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is beautiful and heartbreaking. On par with his first. It's lovely to read ELIC along with his wife's (Nicole Krauss) book The History of Love. They travel along such a parallel path that they're seem like they were written to be read together.

I loved a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. After having had John Irving as my favorite author due to A Prayer for Owen Meany for many years, this surpassed it. Brilliant in its honesty and freshness of voice. It seems that only his work in McSweeney's has held up to the same caliber of work.