AETHER's Picks: What to Read Now

A good book can provide a welcome escape, especially as we are all spending more time in our homes than ever. Here, a few of our favorite books, from adventure stories to photography tomes to design coffee-table books.

Adventure Nonfiction

• Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
• The Wave
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
• Into Thin Air
• The Call of the Wild
• The Snow Leopard
• Kontiki
• The Voyage of the Beagle
• Sailing Alone Around the World
• The Perfect Storm

Design & Architecture Books

• Modernism: Designing a New World
• Tom Kundig: Houses
• The Architecture of the City
• The Architecture of Happiness
• Cities Without Ground
• Small Scale: Creative Solutions for Better City Living
• Cities for People
• BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation

Photography Coffee-Table Books

• Street Photographer
• Small Trades
• Before They Pass Away
• Josef Albers in Mexico
• Riding Through Compton
• My Rules
• One Year on a Bike: From Amsterdam to Singapore
• I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away
• Chanel: The Complete Karl Lagerfeld Collections