Lauren Groff 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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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
John FreemanLauren GroffOver the moon that “The Midnight Zone” is in The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story, edited by the great @FreemanReads (look at this TOC, dang.) https://t.co/oCvwoJjFCO
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Orlando, a Biography: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia WoolfLauren GroffOnly tonight, decades after first encountering him onscreen, did I understand that Orlando Bloom is the decades-delayed personification of high modernism, the marriage of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce in one tidy lovely elfin package.
Paperback, 1973
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno
Dante AlighieriLauren Groff@efnmonster I’d love to pair it with Dante’s Inferno and see the explosion when they meet.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1982
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Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthyLauren GroffI’ve been a fan of Cormac McCarthy’s forever—don’t know yet how I feel about his two new books. But the audiobook of Stella Maris, narrated by Julia Whelan and Edoardo Ballerini (the titans), is probably the ideal way to read this confounding book. They make it sing.
Paperback, 2023
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The Transit of Venus
Shirley HazzardLauren GroffRT @PenguinClassics: The award-winning, bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard, THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, is now available for the…
Paperback, 2021
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The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
Olga RavnLauren GroffAnyway, these are among the best books I’ve read recently: Jon Fosse’s Septology (tr. Damion Searls) and The Employees by @OlgaRavn (tr. Martin Aitken). Both bonkers, moving, dazzlingly risky; both set their own exquisite terms. https://t.co/5H5IoSp5Yc
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfLauren GroffI absolutely loved Magnificent Rebels. Come see the brilliant @andrea_wulf on her US tour. https://t.co/j2G12w2JSd
Paperback, 2023
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Cities of the Plain: Sodom and Gomorrah
Marcel ProustLauren Groff@vincentscarpa Read not long ago—Proust getting equally horny about an orchid (and Charlus and Jupien’s quick bang in Jupien’s shop, which Marcel creepily eavesdropped on) in Sodom and Gomorrah. https://t.co/woz8Ly9lr2
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Septology
Jon FosseLauren GroffAnyway, these are among the best books I’ve read recently: Jon Fosse’s Septology (tr. Damion Searls) and The Employees by @OlgaRavn (tr. Martin Aitken). Both bonkers, moving, dazzlingly risky; both set their own exquisite terms. https://t.co/5H5IoSp5Yc
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSeptology
Jon FosseLauren GroffIt ties 2666 by Roberto Bolaño as my favorite book from the 21st century... What I read was nothing less than a desperate prayer made radiant by sudden spikes of ecstatic beauty.
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book