Maggie Shipstead Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Maggie Shipstead

Reading this book at sea was PERFECTION, but I would recommend reading it anywhere. It’s magnificent. Thanks for sending @cableeke and thank you to @charlottemcconaghy for transporting me so fully back to (a fictionalized version of) Macquarie Island.

Maggie Shipstead

This is a fat, juicy, soulful, gorgeous historical novel with a flawed and vibrant heroine, a journey to Tahiti, and lots of moss (yes, moss!).

Maggie Shipstead

This is the book that made me start to consider how utterly ungovernable the ocean is and how much strange, shady, and dangerous stuff goes on out there, which has turned into a long-term preoccupation of mine.

Maggie Shipstead

I finished The Great Believers in bed one morning and then found myself crying in the shower. I’m not a big crier (this is not that kind of BookTok account). But I was so moved by her characters and the way she manifests the AIDS epidemic against the sweep of time and life.

Maggie Shipstead

The story/fantasy of a famous (and famously attractive) man falling for an ordinary woman might be familiar, but Sittenfeld’s version is so smart and well observed it feels not only deliciously bingeable but fresh.

Maggie Shipstead

It was a joy and an honor to help select Arinze Ifeakandu’s story collection GOD’S CHILDREN ARE LITTLE BROKEN THINGS as the winner of this year’s @dylanthomprize! https://t.co/eTff7Lc7rt

Maggie Shipstead

I’m not done with it yet, but WELCOME TO GLORIOUS TUGA is charming and (this is praise) so very very specific in its setting

Maggie Shipstead

Summer also strikes me as an opportunity for tackling long and luxurious reading projects, and I’m currently in the middle of Marking Time…My dream of perfect seasonal happiness would be to wallow in Howard’s family saga while holed up in a creaky coastal house somewhere.