Whether you’re on the hunt for a book to move you, calm you, or change you, consider a recommendation from the writers in our series. Silvia Moreno-Garcia calls The Intrigue, her latest novel, “a sultry 1940s noir about a con artist who meets his match.” The book that:...first taught me to love reading:. …has the best love story:Look, it’s . Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer’s love affair may be unconsummated, but it burns more hotly than many a sex-heavy book.