Andrew Sean Greer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Travels with My Aunt: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Graham GreeneAndrew Sean GreerA life-affirming story of a grumpy old aunt who drags an utterly average man across the world. Out from under the shadow of his colonial novels and their problems, Greene shines, and shows travel as a mischievous, life-changing event.
Paperback, 2004
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A Journey to the End of the Millennium
A. B. YehoshuaAndrew Sean GreerBest book I have read in ages. Thank you @ayeletw for sending this my way! Like Hilary Mantel only Jewish traders in 999ad Christian Europe. Fascinating compelling beautifully written and translated. Call me a fan #abyehoshua
Paperback, 2000
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Army of Lovers
K. M. SoehnleinAndrew Sean GreerI have read nothing else that captures the ACT/UP years with all the humor and joy and sexiness that I remember, amid all the pain and grief ... this is a joyous story of that terrible but thrilling time when all queer people rose up together to fight for our lives.
Paperback, 2022
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Either/Or
Elif BatumanAndrew Sean GreerAnother book rec! Elif Batuman’s Wonderful follow up to The Idiot is just as funny, smart, heartbreaking and honest as the first. Only a narrator who has always been an outsider could describe American college life with such hilarity and insight. Can’t wait for the next!
Paperback, 2023
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Mara and Dann: An Adventure
Doris LessingAndrew Sean GreerA sci-fi classic in which two young siblings flee danger in a future Africa. Traveling north to supposed safety, they see a world that is much like our own will be if climate change goes on unabated. Chilling, thrilling, and unputdownable.
Paperback, 1999
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael ChabonAndrew Sean GreerI’d love to see a sequel to “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” because I just want to be in that world some more. Not those characters or places necessarily, but that style and epic sweep. Mr. Chabon, are you reading this?
Paperback, 2012
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Moby Dick
Herman MelvilleAndrew Sean GreerI picked it up while writing “Less Is Lost” and couldn’t put it down — it’s hilarious! Why did no one tell me it was hilarious? I thought it was this dismal screed about God and obsession. But it’s not; it’s a hoot and a half.
Paperback, 2011
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The Driver's Seat
Muriel SparkAndrew Sean GreerMy perennial favorite book to give as a gift is The Driver’s Seat, by Muriel Spark. It’s weird, it’s startling, and it’s over in a flash. Usually gets people asking for more by her—even if they’re not sure of what they just read. Perfect creepy holiday gift.
Paperback, 2014
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The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Evelyn WaughAndrew Sean GreerMore an inner journey than an outer one, this is a fictionalized account of Waugh's own mental collapse on a cruise to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). It's also a hilarious and unsettling portrayal of our sense experiences and how they fool us.
Paperback, 2012
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Family Lexicon
Natalia GinzburgAndrew Sean GreerI’m going to try Natalia Ginzburg’s “Lessico Famigliare” in Italian. My Italian is terrible, but if a book has narrative sweep and charm it’s like drinking half a bottle of wine: Somehow I start to understand Italian!
Paperback, 2017
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