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Jennifer Egan Book Recommendations

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Book Cover for: Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory, Colette Brooks

Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory

Colette Brooks
Jennifer EganJennifer 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

Paperback, 2024

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta, James Hannaham

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

James Hannaham
Jennifer EganJennifer 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

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins
Jennifer EganJennifer Egan

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.

Paperback, 2003

$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family, Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker
Jennifer EganJennifer 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

Paperback, 2021

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Maid, Nita Prose

The Maid

Nita Prose
Jennifer EganJennifer Egan

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.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Jaron Lanier

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier
Jennifer EganJennifer 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...

Paperback, 2019

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Absolution, Alice McDermott

Absolution

Alice McDermott
Jennifer EganJennifer 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.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins
Jennifer EganJennifer 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.

Paperback, 2003

$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Jennifer Egan

A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Jennifer Egan
Jennifer EganJennifer Egan

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

Paperback, 2011

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Country of Origin (Revised), Don Lee

Country of Origin (Revised)

Don Lee
Jennifer EganJennifer 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.

Paperback, 2005

$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book