Laila Lalami 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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Laila Lalami is a novelist, essayist, and professor. Author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT and the National Book Award finalist THE OTHER AMERICANS. Reader. Mutant. IG:lailawrites
Long Division
Kiese LaymonLaila LalamiStopped by @DIESELBrentwood to sign some books. Find them by the register! Also picked up a bunch of new paperbacks, including @KieseLaymon’s Long Division. https://t.co/DRwV2WYFvK
Paperback, 2021
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The Tin Drum
Günter GrassLaila LalamiFor everyone struggling with a novel, some inspiration from the narrator of Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum. https://t.co/NPpDFwuC2p
Paperback, 2010
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
Laila LalamiLaila LalamiMy first book, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005), is being reissued in a beautiful paperback edition, out next month. It's about four Moroccan immigrants who cross the Mediterranean on a lifeboat. Take a look, if you need a break from the pandemic. https://t.co/lEortqX7wS
Paperback, 2017
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The Satanic Verses
Salman RushdieLaila LalamiHow Salman Rushdie came across the story that would become The Satanic Verses. (From my piece in @thenation in 2013.) https://t.co/gEt0Wwk0b1 https://t.co/mcc0ZmtaRI
Paperback, 2008
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Fahrenheit 451
SparknotesLaila LalamiSo often I think about how Ray Bradbury foresaw our social media nightmare in 'Fahrenheit 451.' https://t.co/XzvqcURzcw
Paperback, 2014
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The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel
John A. WilliamsLaila LalamiI’m halfway through this novel and want to say a) it’s absolutely phenomenal and b) there’s new edition of it coming out with @modernlibrarybooks with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and introduction by @merve__emre, so look for it this fall!
Paperback, 2023
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Jean-Dominique BaubyLaila LalamiThis reminded me of 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Except that the patient communicates through a brain implant. Wild. https://t.co/BONLFI5OAV
Paperback, 1998
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This Other Eden
Paul HardingLaila Lalami“One thing I’ve learned as a novelist is just to not be in a hurry.” Exactly the thing I needed to hear today, in this beautiful profile of Paul Harding. https://t.co/vPcyBgucZm
Paperback, 2023
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila LalamiLaila LalamiRT @PRHHigherEd: Tonight! Wed 11/3 at 6pm PT / 9pm ET join @LailaLalami in conversation about her book, CONDITIONAL CITIZENS, with Dr. @Anu…
Paperback, 2021
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Afterlives
Abdulrazak GurnahLaila LalamiAbdulrazak Gurnah won the Nobel, but his books are almost impossible to find in the U.S. That may change now that Riverhead bought three of his titles, including his most recent novel, Afterlives. https://t.co/RgjcfvgUj7
Paperback, 2023
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