Joanna Rakoff Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Joanna Rakoff

There is a particular joy that comes from opening a book utterly blind... Such was the case, for me, with @doctorsophieward's The Schoolhouse... A literary procedural in the vein of Kate Atkinson's Case Histories... shook me, and scared me, in a profound and unsettling and necessary way.

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Joanna Rakoff

Human Blues’ brilliance ... lies largely in her urgent narrative style, and precise, perfect takes on contemporary language and mores, and just how fucking funny and smart is she, how she goes deeper and deeper at every turn.

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Joanna Rakoff

Each time a new Jennifer Haigh galley lands on my porch, I drop everything and begin reading... Wholly absorbed, breathlessly turning pages... Her latest, RABBIT MOON, was no different... I loved it and you should read it right now.

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WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS is that rare thing: A comedic novel about death. It’s also a midlife coming-of-age tale and an exploration of the complexities of twenty-first century friendship, motherhood, and sexuality.

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I loved this novel so, so much ... I read purely as a reader—rather than a writer or critic—never thinking about narrative style or point of view or structure. Just lost in @gabriellezevin ‘s urgent prose and brightly textured, heartbreakingly, hilariously realistic world.

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@lisasolod I loved, loved The Great Believers (and all Rebecca Makkai) and Disappearing Earth! And I'm the only person alive who's not yet read A Gentleman from Moscow. (I will confess that I did not love The Nix.)

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I truly couldn’t put down Evan Hughes’ THE HARD SELL: Crime and Punishment at an Opioid Startup, which reads like a novel—truly—complete with fascinating, complicated characters and heart-stopping suspense. If you loved Patrick Radden Keefe’s EMPIRE OF PAIN, you’ll love this one.

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I loved, loved this deeply wise, absorbing novel, which I read months back, and still think about nearly every day. It is also so deeply a novel of London—my favorite city—and made me long to return.

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Joanna Rakoff

@BabsVan Graphic novels: Sheets by @brennathummler Roller Girl and All's Faire in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson Justine by Forsyth Harmon and everything by @hopelarson

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@Leavittnovelist @Elizabeth_Crane So excited to read this one! I love her short stories.

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