Decline and Fall in the Bookshop

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along; he must offer some little opposition." - Evelyn Waugh

 

A Little Life in the Bookshop

A Little Life by Hanya Yanaghiara

"What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier." - Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life