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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: 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

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Furrows, Namwali Serpell

The Furrows

Namwali Serpell
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

I profiled ⁦@namwalien⁩ ahead of her second novel, “The Furrows,” about unresolved grief, the repetition compulsion and the essential sameness of human longing https://t.co/ICHOsukVAr

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gunk Baby, Jamie Marina Lau

Gunk Baby

Jamie Marina Lau
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

.@alex___tanner wrote a brilliant review about ear wax and capitalism! https://t.co/CcHhOg5Udj

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

Small Things Like These

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

$20.00$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

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club), Leila Mottley

Nightcrawling: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

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

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + 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

$17.95$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

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Trayvon Generation, Elizabeth Alexander

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander
Lauren ChristensenLauren Christensen

.@MitchSJackson reviews "The Trayvon Generation," by Elizabeth Alexander: https://t.co/WG4QPpEgtL

Hardcover, 2022

$22.00$11.00 + 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

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book