Clint Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Clint Smith

Just finished LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by @Rumaan. A beautifully written and utterly fascinating novel that rejects any easy categorization. It's sort of a thriller, but it's also a really compelling meditation on how humans behave when we realize we're not in control. Great book.

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Trust’s storytelling is impeccable, full of twists and surprises. The book is also a remarkable criticism of unbridled capitalism—but the story does not exist in service of a doctrine. It remains unlike anything else I’ve read. 

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Thank you to @_jeevika for this generous, gorgeous, deeply thoughtful review. It means so much to have the book seen so fully. https://t.co/iBhPRUD9WQ

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Some excellent book recommendations on the relationship between slavery and the Confederacy from @KevinLevin. Charles Dew’s “Apostles of Disunion” was especially instructive for me when I first read it. https://t.co/32MfQkcRQ0

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Mohsin Hamid is one of my favorite writers. EXIT WEST is one of the best novels I've ever read. I recently finished his new novel THE LAST WHITE MAN and I have such admiration for how inventive and imaginative a writer he is. All of his books are so different, and so satisfying.

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Mohsin Hamid is one of my favorite writers. EXIT WEST is one of the best novels I've ever read. I recently finished his new novel THE LAST WHITE MAN and I have such admiration for how inventive and imaginative a writer he is. All of his books are so different, and so satisfying.

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Just finished THE WAGER by @DavidGrann. It was my first book of his but definitely won’t be my last. The sort of nonfiction book you finish and can’t believe it wasn’t actually a novel. The details are so rich and the narrative was so immersive. What a wild, incredible story.

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RT @hannahgiorgis: spoke with Sister Souljah about Life After Death, the new sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever, a book whose audacious prot…

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This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read and is unquestionably one of the best novels I’ve ever had the pleasure of spending time with... at once beautifully written and narratively gripping. I told the crowd last night that it’s like Walt Whitman meets John Grisham.

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Recently reread Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake for the first time in many years and enjoyed it even more now than I did the first time. Few writers capture the interior lives of their character's as well as Lahiri does. The tension and their sense of longing spill off every page.