Lauren Christensen 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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Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui ZhangLauren Christensenone 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
Conversations with Friends
Sally RooneyLauren ChristensenRT @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
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganLauren ChristensenLydia 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
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam ToewsLauren ChristensenDiscursive, revelatory... As fluent in the comic register as it is in the tragic... The book is less a linear narrative than a neat pile of shattered glass, one shard picked up at a time, in no discernible order.
Hardcover, 2025
$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lonely Crowds
Stephanie WambuguLauren ChristensenIt’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
Nightcrawling
Leila MottleyLauren ChristensenI 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
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin LabatutLauren ChristensenRT @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
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Laura WarrellLauren ChristensenReviewed 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
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila HarrisLauren ChristensenRT @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
King Kong Theory
Virginie DespentesLauren 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