Laurie Muchnick 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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Fiction editor @KirkusReviews. Formerly: @business @newsday @villagevoice. she/her. Welsh by marriage. 🏴 ✡️ 📚

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
@TheBookMaven I'm reading TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin (so much fun) and listening to THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by Richard Osman (also so much fun). Can't wait for the weekend.
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: A Step-By-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep
Marc Weissbluth
@InOrderOfImport Congratulations! Check out Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth. My kid is 19 so maybe it's outdated, but it helped me a lot back when he wouldn't sleep unless he was in motion.
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What Happens in Paradise
Elin Hilderbrand
When Elin Hilderbrand's "What Happens in Paradise" was published in 2019, our review said: "Print the bumper sticker—'I'd Rather Be Living in an Elin Hilderbrand Novel.'" Today I noticed: https://t.co/qERzzp7caR
Paperback, Mass Market, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
@JessicaFKane The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. A bunch of octogenarians living at an English retirement village. You'll love it.
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence: A Baking Book
Claire Saffitz
@Lisa_See Thank you! It's from Claire Saffitz's Dessert Person, crimped by @owenrhysthomas
Hardcover, 2020
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leopoldstadt
Tom Stoppard
I just saw Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt, and I'm sorry to report that it feels like the work of someone who just found out he's Jewish (which it is) and thinks he needs to be didactic about everything because to him it's news—but the rest of us have known it forever.
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Laura Warrell
Sad news from Madrid that the great novelist Javier Marías has died. When I spoke to Laura Warrell recently about her first novel, SWEET, SOFT, PLENTY RHYTHM, she mentioned Marías as someone whose work she'd like everyone to read. 1/2
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Carrie
Stephen King
My son is 18 and wants to read Stephen King for the first time. What would you recommend? The Shining? Carrie?
Paperback, Mass Market, 2011
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Mistake
Jonathan Lee
@heybonanos By the way, have you read The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee? https://t.co/Fx9A8xIg1I
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Richard Osman
@TheBookMaven I'm reading TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin (so much fun) and listening to THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by Richard Osman (also so much fun). Can't wait for the weekend.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book