Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 10–16

This week’s selection features a history of Jewish mobsters fighting Nazis in America and a Dickens novel famous for its vivid characters.

Fiction

Adventure Between Mexico and the States

‘All the Pretty Horses’ By Cormac McCarthy

The first of Cormac McCarthy’s “Border Trilogy,” “All the Pretty Horses” follows the young man John Grady Cole on his quest for love and adventure across the U.S. border into Mexico in 1949. There he traverses an era of ranching that’s being swept away by the modern world.