Emily Temple Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emily Temple

[Organ Meats] gets even weirder than what we’ve come to expect from [Chang], taking readers down a surreal path of myth and magic and girls who are dogs who are girls in gorgeous, lyrical prose.

Emily Temple

A strange dream-like, reality-like patchwork... This is a book about erasure and time, about storytelling and art and science, and also, if you'll forgive me, about love. I couldn't put it down.

Emily Temple

At last Lea Carpenter is back (after 2018’s Red, White, Blue) with another sideways approach to the international spy novel—in this one, a young woman is swept off her feet by a much older suitor, but after they’re married, he asks her for a “favor”…never a good thing.

Emily Temple

Wanna look cool this fall (and/or fill the Just Kids-sized hole in your literary heart)? Pick up the memoir from Moore, founding member of Sonic Youth, which tells the story of his rise from small-town music fan to rock legend—and which by the way comes with a blurb from Colson Whitehead.

Emily Temple

The latest novel from the bard of Brooklyn is a metafictional collage that tells the story of some fifty years in one neighborhood (roughly Cobble Hill). It’s funny and wise and weird... this love letter to Brooklyn is just what I need.

Emily Temple

For history buffs and erstwhile toga partiers alike: a deep dive on the emperors of Rome—and the nature of the position itself—by popular literary historian and bestselling author of SPQR, Mary Beard.

Emily Temple

This debut novel is set on a Greek island off the southern coast, where an art historian is seeking a sculpture: the nude…What trip to the Mediterranean would be complete without a sensual and provocative examination of your own role in global systems of capital and ownership?

Emily Temple

Whenever it comes up amongst the literary girls and gays who love it, it seems to be discussed in these terms: life-changing… adulation. And of course it is: this is a genre-bending, queer coming-of-age novel, half poetry, half prose, highbrow and postmodern and sly and sexy.

Emily Temple

I loved Leigh Bardugo’s first Alex Stern book, Ninth House—basically the perfect book for adults who miss the fantasy novels of their youth. Anyway, the literary fiction world does sequels now, and I’m here for it. Time to go back to the most terrifying version of Yale you’ve ever imagined.

Emily Temple

In this tough-as-nails novella ... Roanhorse plays with the notion of purity and original sin... Rebecca Roanhorse is known for her incredible worldbuilding, diverse inspirations, and complex reinterpretations of tropes, and all her talents are perfectly on display in her latest.