George Packer's six favorite books

George Packer's new book is The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.

One of his six favorite books, as told to The Week magazine:Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Dickens was sui generis, but I keep meeting his outsize, struggling characters in places like Yangon, Myanmar, and Lagos, Nigeria. Societies and literary styles have changed since the 1850s, but there's nothing dated about the