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Chris Crowley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Chris Crowley is a writer and reporter at Grub Street. writing for @grubstreet about nyc's restaurants, the people who work in them, and the city chris.crowley@nymag.com

6 books
Book Cover for: My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

On Twitter, a random 20-something told me I should audition to play the lead in “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” the Ottessa Moshfegh novel that was going to be made into a movie. I was offended, even though it was the only book I had read in two years. https://t.co/vso2QI55m9

Paperback, 2019

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Among the Thugs, Bill Buford

Among the Thugs

Bill Buford
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

I haven’t stopped thinking about Among The Thugs since I read it in May; I guess that makes it the best book I read this year https://t.co/NzEDPyPEpW

Paperback, 1993

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

Finally reading Conversations With Friends and I have decided I want to be the Irish-American Sally Rooney

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration, Jake Bittle

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

congratulations to my friend @jake_bittle on publishing his first book, The Great Displacement, which is groundbreaking not only as the first book about climate refugees in the USA but also for mentioning Appletinis (and me) in the Acknowledgements section https://t.co/Cg1CepvmOJ

Paperback, 2024

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Family Lexicon, Natalia Ginzburg

Family Lexicon

Natalia Ginzburg
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

reading family lexicon by natalia ginzburg on my way to drinking albanian grappa with this italian in the bronx — synergy

Paperback, 2017

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us, Rachel Aviv

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv
Chris CrowleyChris Crowley

read the book last week and have told a half-dozen people to read it... i can't shut up about it

Paperback, 2023

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book