Catherine Newman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Catherine Newman

@rufithorpe is a national treasure and I am in love with her and all of her books. This newest is so funny and tender and surprising that I keep wheeling and dealing with myself so I won’t finish it in a single sitting. Out in June but you can preorder now and should.

Catherine Newman

Happy book birthday, @thatkristenagain ! I just started reading your warm, zany, funny, sad mother-daughter road-trip novel, and I am hooked already. 💓

Catherine Newman

Jennifer Weiner’s delicious new novel... is slyly, delectably subversive... sexy and suspenseful and so much fun... It’s the lobster roll you get with mayo and melted butter — because why choose?

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Catherine Newman

The very best thing about this book might be the way Quindlen, an anthropologist of domesticity, catalogs the sparklingly random moments that make up human experience.

Catherine Newman

As a person who has dabbled in both academia and publishing, I felt like this book was written just for me. It’s funny and often satirical, yes, but it’s also deadly serious about motherhood and creativity and how utterly, soul-crushingly tedious cis men can be.

Catherine Newman

This is such a precious book. It’s physically beautiful—heavy in the hands and satiny and deeply saturated with color—and then just visually brilliant, with hauntingly desaturated memories and imaginative panels that teeter between realism and fantasy.

Catherine Newman

I love campus novels (despite my deep fear of mean girls), and The Academy is no exception. It’s crackling and alive and brimming with secrets and surprises and betrayal and connection and, well, youngness. *Youth* is the word. You can feel it—how lived this is.