Emily Bobrow 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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Weekend Confidential @WSJ; formerly @TheEconomist; bemused observer

My Nemesis
Charmaine Craig
Really enjoyed Charmaine Craig's psychologically taut new novel "My Nemesis" so wrote about it for @TheEconomist @groveatlantic https://t.co/dVYlbayLuu https://t.co/e4rOTLyhF1
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where Reasons End: Where Reasons End: A Novel
Yiyun Li
Like an alchemist, Yiyun Li has turned a tragic personal loss into a profound work of art. Where Reasons End is a beautiful book @penguinrandom https://t.co/OkrM3nQSQ4
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Me
Halle Butler
@lindsaygoldwert @bodilyofferings Yes to iris owens! Also all moshfegh and The New Me by Halle Butler, which no one talks about but I found thrilling
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
Paul Broks
I was pretty dazzled by “The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars,” @PaulBroks1’s remarkable book about life, death and the profound mysteries of consciousness https://t.co/5Yynt762yC
Hardcover, 2018
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
The problem with Ian McEwan's round-up of the best five books about children is that it doesn't include his "The Cement Garden", which is brilliant https://t.co/ZT6PB844uU
Paperback, 2014
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Power Notebooks
Katie Roiphe
It is often fascinating to witness Katie Roiphe reckon with her personal contradictions in "The Power Notebooks"; her ambivalence here feels more authentic, and therefore more persuasive, than her polemics. My review @WSJ https://t.co/27ua8dVQ42
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Lauren Redniss
Lauren Redniss's work is hard to classify, but consistently remarkable. "Oak Flat" is a beautiful, moving book; I review it here, with Robert Macfarlane's "Ghostways" @WSJ https://t.co/LzAnmAntU9
Paperback, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
Had some thoughts about Trust, Hernan Diaz’s matryoshka doll of a novel @TheEconomist https://t.co/hJKpvxXHLD
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Farm
Joanne Ramos
I was gripped by Joanne Ramos's unnervingly plausible debut novel "The Farm", in which mostly destitute immigrants incubate the babies of the 1% @TheEconomist @BloomsburyBooks @penguinrandom https://t.co/8K1zIfs5TH
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Limits
Nell Freudenberger
The Limits is insightful about the ways the Covid crisis applied pressure to unsteady joints, as if testing which bonds would last... As the book’s perspective shifts from character to character, Ms. Freudenberger convincingly inhabits an array of voices.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book