Gilbert Cruz 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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Gilbert Cruz is the editor of the New York Times Book Review. Editor of the New York Times Book Review. Formerly NYT Culture Editor and alum of @Vulture, @Time, and @EW.

Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
It's spooky and it's scary, but it's also set in Mexico City. So you have both the cool and the hot. It's something that I'm looking forward to checking out this summer.
Paperback, 2021
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The Five-Star Weekend
Elin Hilderbrand
I have read many of these books. I have read one a summer for the past many summers, and they all share similar themes and similar dynamics, and they're quite entertaining. And I'm looking forward to reading this one very much on my vacation soon.
Hardcover, 2023
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Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead
And if you know anything about New York in the 1970s, it was a grimy place, a dangerous place, but it was also a very exciting place. So I'm looking forward to seeing how Colson Whitehead sort of tackles that time period.
Paperback, 2024
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Be Mine: A Frank Bascombe Novel
Richard Ford
What an achievement. I love Richard Ford. I love his writing. And to think that he's sort of saying farewell to this character whose life has followed his own through the seasons of his own life is really touching.
Paperback, 2024
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A Girl's Story
Annie Ernaux
In April 2020, @LauraCappelle spoke to Nobel Prize-winner Annie Ernaux upon the U.S. publication of “A Girl’s Story.” https://t.co/6pAOrvoVNj
Paperback, 2020
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Scurvy's a hell of a thing. Talking to David Grann on the Book Review podcast about his new shipwreck/mutiny book, "The Wager." https://t.co/hhMkywWT0x
Hardcover, 2023
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Spoke to @victorlavalle on this week's pod about his new novel "Lone Women" and Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" https://t.co/I3tLLIJhrH
Paperback, 2006
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
(2) Dwight Garner on the role of food in the work of Cormac McCarthy, inspired by the New Orleans cuisine in "The Passenger." (With a fresh response from McCarthy himself about fettucine with clams.): https://t.co/EvGgJHylWk
Paperback, 2023
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
This morning, the Times Book Review has an excerpt from Bob Dylan's forthcoming "The Philosophy of Modern Song" — essays on The Who's "My Generation" and Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night." (Bonus, audio clips of Dylan and Oscar Isaac reading pieces.) https://t.co/C0GWG67b5c
Hardcover, 2022
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Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club
Celeste Ng
This morning, Stephen King reviews Celeste Ng's forthcoming "Our Missing Hearts" https://t.co/5MffADv0jR
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book