Chloe Benjamin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Chloe Benjamin

I just finished @angelaflournoy’s incredible #TheWilderness... I feel grateful to be let into the minds and worlds of these characters, and I’ll be thinking about them for a long time.... Next up is @lailawrites’s #TheDreamHotel.

Chloe Benjamin

It’s a wistful feeling, realizing that a writer you love will never come out with a new book. A.S. Byatt died this month. Her work is sonic and detailed and spackled with texture. One of my favorite of her subjects is the writer’s soul, which she depicts with loving honesty...

Chloe Benjamin

Just finished #Eastbound, a slim extraordinary book... set on a train to Siberia, it follows a Russian conscript and the French stranger he begs to help him escape. The language is exquisite and so is the intuitive psychological understanding... Read it in a day—or three, like me, savoring…

Chloe Benjamin

It’s so cozy to read a really well-done mystery/whodunit, especially when the material is handled with as much thoughtful and sensitivity as it is in @lizmoorebooks’s #longbrightriver. Shades of Tana French, one of my favorites.

Chloe Benjamin

What stands out to me is the novel’s artistry, its unrelenting commitment to emotional truth. Reading it, I was often struck by the feeling that it exemplifies what books can offer: access to another mind, the character’s mind, a specific and extraordinary kind of boundary crossing.

Chloe Benjamin

This book was an absolute delight. If you like Sally Rooney, Kiley Reid, and Lily King’s #writersandlovers, I suspect you will adore #therachelincident, which is full of keen observations about friendship, sex, & class and also often made me laugh out loud.