The Great Cat Massacre

An incredibly well-written and thoughtful book, The Great Cat Massacre is a love letter to the weird and forgotten corners of history. It does best when it looks into the life of the poor, and some of its best and most touching passages detail how the history of poverty is looked-over or forgotten. The first two chapters, detailing French fairy tales and the eponymous cat massacre are, in my opinion, the best; the book looses a little steam after that. Still, it's definitely worth reading for those chapters alone. I learned more in those scant pages than I did in entire books.