Books
The stately pilcrow (¶)—wouldn't it be a nice shape for a bookmark? Or perhaps for a top-heavy bookend?—more apt to fall over itself than to prevent its shelf-mates from doing so. I sympathize; I fall over sometimes too.
Fiction
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
Orbit, 2013
A book whose protagonist is a spaceship who has a conscious mind and has many human bodies. This is a little confusing, but imagine: she can sing choral music by herself!
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Bloomsbury, 2020
A beautiful book; a complete book; a book which lacks nothing.
Non-fiction
A Place for Everything by Judith Flanders
Basic Books, 2020
Although subtitled A History of Alphabetical Order, this book is really about the history of how writing is organized.