Allegra Goodman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Allegra Goodman

An archaeologist counters centuries of myth with evidence that the Vikings were sophisticated, ethnically diverse, and cosmopolitan. Price's book is a profound meditation on culture, ritual, and what it means to be human.

Allegra Goodman

TGIF! I'm rereading one of my favorite books...I love this true story of a Jewish family and their art, their dizzying success, their tragic shattering by the Nazis and the way that their descendent pieces their lives together years later.

Allegra Goodman

Witty, poignant, and prescient, these are stories of China and the Chinese diaspora. They are also stories of families in all their complexity. Gish Jen is the rare writer who can be funny and sad at the same time.

Allegra Goodman

When Ariel was published in 1965, two years after Plath's death, her husband, Ted Hughes, removed some poems and added others. This edition belatedly restores Plath's original selection and arrangement of her searing poems... Read it to see a writer working at the height of her powers.

Allegra Goodman

Intimate, thought-provoking, and heartbreaking, this memoir is a personal history and a testament to a brother, cousin, and friends — all men, young and Black, who died too soon. Ward is a memoirist who writes about other people as well as she writes about herself.

Allegra Goodman

Sarah Polley adapted Toews' novel into a current movie, but you should read the book first... [it] shook me. It's strange, riveting, radical art.

Allegra Goodman

Look what I got! I'm reading "The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot"s Hidden Muse" by the brilliant Lyndall Gordon. If you like poetry, or mystery, or romance, or great scholarship, or the story of unacknowledged women, then this book is for you.