Constance Grady 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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Constance Grady is a culture writer. Culture writer for @voxdotcom. Bylines at The Toast and the A.V. Club. Not the Ugly Betty character. constance.grady@vox.com.

The Bedwetter
Sarah Silverman
At the Bedwetter, the project Adam Schlesinger was working on before his death by COVID, in partnership with Sarah Silverman. Deeply sweet and charming. https://t.co/76OWpSTkJe
Paperback, 2011
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Either/Or
Elif Batuman
Either/Or is a deeply interior novel... Batuman is an expert at defamiliarizing ideas that have become so normal to us we can no longer see them clearly... In her hands, the polite absurdities of everyday life become huge, perplexing, and very funny.
Paperback, 2023
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Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club
Celeste Ng
I thought Our Missing Hearts got too didactic for its own good at times, but no one writes about parenthood as beautifully as Celeste Ng. https://t.co/FBypfWR859
Paperback, 2023
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You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue
This is an absolute wonder of a new novel... It takes place over the course of a single day in 1519, when the Spanish conquistador Cortés arrives at the imperial palace of Moctezuma in what is now Mexico City... We know how history ends — but in Enrigue’s playful, hallucinatory prose, it feels entirely possible for things to go in different directions.
Hardcover, 2024
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East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Corporation
Tirthankar Roy
Book club discussion post! We are talking East India Company, technocapitalism, and the excellent IMMORTAL KING RAO! Come hang! https://www.vox.com/culture/23171264/immortal-king-rao-review-vauhini-vara?utm_campaign=constancegrady&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Paperback, 2016
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The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
We're getting our first Pulitzer Prize winner at the Vox Book Club! This February we're reading The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, aka the only pandemic novel so far that I have been able to stand. https://www.vox.com/culture/22901535/the-sentence-louise-erdrich-vox-book-club
Paperback, 2022
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Hello, I did not like To Paradise and I did not like A Little Life either! I spent a long, long time trying to work out what they were doing and why it bugged me, and here’s what I got. https://www.vox.com/culture/22884073/to-paradise-review-hanya-yanagihara-a-little-life?utm_campaign=constancegrady&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Paperback, 2016
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes I think the reason literary criticism got obsessed with evaluating prose as “sentences” over the past few decades is simply that McCarthy’s are so good. They rattle out at you like little bullets, mean and punchy and precise.
Paperback, 2023
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Intermezzo is exquisite... It's as tender and lovely as you could ask for, and beneath the elegant rise and fall of Rooney's oceanic sentences, the waters go deep.
Hardcover, 2024
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
Bleak, lonely, and with a boldly graphic line ... Beaton’s figures are rendered in scrunchy, expressive lines...vividly expressive ... The imagery here is richer and more cutting than the imagery of Hark! A Vagrant, more suited to this lengthy, ambitious memoir ... Devastating.
Hardcover, 2022
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