Lynn Steger Strong 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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Lynn Steger Strong is a novelist. FLIGHT, 2022. WANT, 2020. HOLD STILL, 2016. She/Her. insta: @lynnstegerstrong

Delphi
Clare Pollard
Wrote about Clare Pollard's "Delphi" for @nytimesbooks , a crystalline and acute take on what the past few years have been: https://t.co/BWNOJsZzWE
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hurricane Girl
Marcy Dermansky
Nobody does sharp and funny and devastating quite like @mdermansky :
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
Robert A. Caro
Listening to Robert Caro’s “The Path to Power” and I’m so riveted I keep hiding in the car to get more time with it.
Paperback, 1990
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
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.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Avalon
Nell Zink
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
Paperback, 2023
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Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
Lydia Davis
@CarolynQuimby i sometimes start the semester with Grace Paley's "Wants" and Lydia Davis's "Fear", with the idea that stories function by thinking about what the characters want and are afraid of but even those ideas are incredibly elastic in stories.
Paperback, 2007
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Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir
Javier Zamora
Zamora's storytelling is crafted with stunning intimacy, and you'll feel so close to the boy he was then that you'll think about him long after the book is done. It's impossible not to feel both immersed in and changed by this extraordinary book.
Paperback, 2023
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Orange Collection)
Shirley Jackson
@KateDwyer @finejuli And seeing Julia’s name reminded me of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle!! Killer sisters!
Paperback, 2016
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
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.
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
Rachel Cusk
@ambernoelle Remember what they did to Rachel Cusk with A Life’s Work and Aftermath??
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book