
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2016
A Russian count under house arrest in a luxury hotel for 30 years. An elegant, witty, warmly humanist novel that became one of the great word-of-mouth successes of the era. Not fashionably experimental, but executing traditional pleasures with rare craft. Enormously re-read.
Best of Last 10 Years · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.