STACKED: What’s on Mariam Rahmani's Shelf

Author

Mariam Rahmani, author of Liquid: A Love Story, recently shared her reading picks with Belletrist Book Club’s Stacked series. Her debut novel follows an Iranian American academic who sets out to find a wealthy husband through a series of 100 dates, only to be pulled back to Tehran by a family emergency that forces her to confront questions of identity, culture, and connection.

Book Cover for: Liquid: A Love Story, Mariam Rahmani

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3 books

The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick

Donna Tartt

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Anna Karenina: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Leo Tolstoy

I first read Anna Karenina around 16 or 17, and for many years of my life, I would reread it every year. The version I really like right now is the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

Paperback, 2004

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Sellout

Paul Beatty

Probably my favorite L.A. novel. It’s such a complicated and hard-hitting book. I was rereading it when I did revisions for "Liquid: A Love Story", because anytime I thought about holding a punch or watering something down, I would read some lines from Beatty and it would galvanize me to go stronger.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book