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Lauren Christensen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Lauren Christensen is an editor at the New York Times Book Review. editor at the New York Times book review

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Book Cover for: Four Treasures of the Sky, Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Four Treasures of the Sky

Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

one of my favorite novels of the year so far: FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY, by @pantaloonies, reviewed by @Egangoonsquad https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/books/jenny-tinghui-zhang-four-treasures-of-the-sky.html

Paperback, 2023

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

RT @nytimes: Sally Rooney's first two books, "Conversations With Friends" and "Normal People," made her more famous than she liked. For her…

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club), Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)

Claire Keegan
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

Lydia Millet reviews Claire Keegan's "Small Things Like These," a slim novel set in 1985 Ireland, when murderous Magdalene Laundries were still condoned by the Catholic Church and society at large. https://t.co/focsh8SyBn

Hardcover, 2021

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial, Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

A second-person, stream-of-consciousness memoir... Scattered throughout are the shards of an intimate personal history, leaving the reader to comb through the debris as if searching for the remains of a loved one.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lonely Crowds, Stephanie Wambugu

Lonely Crowds

Stephanie Wambugu
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

It’s about as classic a coming-of-age as you’ll find. But as Ruth grows up...it’s the specificity of this young woman’s mind, the contours with which she draws the characters and environments around her, that make “Lonely Crowds” exceptional.

Hardcover, 2025

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

I reviewed “Nightcrawling,” the debut novel by Oakland’s 2018 youth poet laureate, set in a gentrifying city where tech money is “settling the land and calling it entrepreneurship” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/books/review/nightcrawling-leila-mottley.html?referringSource=articleShare

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

RT @johnwilliamsnyt: I got to speak with Benjamin Labatut on this week's podcast about "When We Cease to Understand the World," one of the…

Paperback, 2021

$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, Laura Warrell

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm

Laura Warrell
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

Reviewed Laura Warrell’s debut, “Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm”: https://t.co/zGMDcpQFPD

Paperback, 2023

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

RT @simplylovia: for @newrepublic, i wrote about zakiya dalila harris's "the other black girl" and the stark whiteness of the office novel…

Paperback, 2022

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: King Kong Theory, Virginie Despentes

King Kong Theory

Virginie Despentes
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

“It’s never seemed particularly obvious to me that hot girls are having such a great time.” Virginie Despentes, King Kong theory

Paperback, 2021

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book