Lynn Steger Strong Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Paying this forward by saying the 2020 book I just read and loved was Gabriel Bump’s “Everywhere You Don’t Belong”: never too late for some (slightly older) books :). https://t.co/T5QtI83qKm

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@KatyKelleher Not obscure but majorly under appreciated, I think: Mr Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt.

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Wrote about Rebecca Miller’s story collection “Total” for the NYTimes: https://t.co/5Gp4FZo6iN

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Wrote about Nell Zink’s incredibly fun novel “Avalon” and about Freud (?): https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-05-24/nell-zinks-addictively-high-concept-farce-fiction-comes-to-california

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@SequoiaN Did someone say John Fowles’ The Collector?

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@KateDwyer @finejuli And seeing Julia’s name reminded me of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle!! Killer sisters!

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other books on this list that i have read and would pre-order immediately: Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose, Laura Warrell's Sweet, Soft, Plenty, Rhythm, Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book, Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You.

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@audrain Aha! Thanks so much Ashley. I thought The Push was so brilliantly constructed! This means a lot.

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I wrote about “Biography of X”: a totally thrilling book to get to think deeply about: https://t.co/ARQyeaEMJq

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Wrote about Elif Batuman’s “Either/Or” and about youth: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-05-19/the-ecstasy-and-frustration-of-youth-is-elif-batumans-specialty