Jennifer Egan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jennifer Egan

Join us in 45 minutes!! I'll be interviewing the inimitable Colette Brooks about her new masterpiece, TRAPPED IN THE PRESENT TENSE: MEDITATIONS ON AMERICAN MEMORY. @greenlightbklyn https://t.co/eLU9NHS2SR

Jennifer Egan

John Irving agrees that @JamesHannaham's new novel, "Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta," published **TODAY**, is a masterpiece!!! https://t.co/pd7ZCpxKUf

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It’s one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read; a Gothic novel that is also a whodunnit, published in 1859 and featuring one of the great literary villains—a charming, menacing bird lover.

Jennifer Egan

FREE BROOKLYN EVENT this Saturday, 3/18 at 6:30! I will be in conversation with the great Robert Kolker, author of HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD. Join us!! @kolotchayeinu https://t.co/jIsCieiMaz https://t.co/Md6zARUzUi

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The Maid by Nita Prose is a comic whodunnit featuring a narrator who knows far more than she – or anyone around her – thinks that she knows: a satisfying tale of the triumphant underdog sleuth.

Jennifer Egan

Lanier’s provocatively titled book may in itself appear divisive, but the tools for unity are abundant within this brief and lucid volume. Chief among them is Lanier’s reminder that strife and division...are encouraged, incited, stoked and rewarded by the online platforms...

Jennifer Egan

Retrospect amplifies McDermott’s narrative approach; her work lives in its shimmering details (she’s especially good with smells and descriptions of light), and nostalgia imbues even simple observations with suggestiveness.

Jennifer Egan

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a stay-up-all-night page-turner from 1859 that rivals any thriller written since: heavy on brooding gothic atmosphere, rife with plot twists, and featuring one of the great literary villains.

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RT @SimonSchusterCA: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is back with a companion novel to A Visit From the Goon Squad, read an exc…

Jennifer Egan

An un-put-downable thriller (and first novel!) involving a young American woman’s disappearance into the criminal night-world of Tokyo. Lee’s fiction has been exploring the complexities of race and ethnicity for decades, and he gets better with every book.