Margaret Renkl Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Margaret Renkl

This book is more than a celebration of nature’s multiplicities. It’s also a memoir of one writer’s journey toward understanding and self acceptance. Because when you love the wild world, you can’t help but learn to love the wild wholeness in yourself.

Margaret Renkl

If you, too, need to read something quiet and beautiful and suffused with love, something that does not hide from the too-muchness world but instead offers a gentle reminder of the many recompenses there can be for all its pain, then “Someone” is the novel for you.

Margaret Renkl

Set in 1979-80... the book follows one year in the life of Griffin,a high-school freshman who must navigate the voracious needs of the adults charged with nurturing him... a novel to sink into, a novel that immerses you in an entirely different world.

Margaret Renkl

I can’t remember the last time I read a debut novel this confident in its pacing, this immersive in its storytelling, and at the same time this lyrical in its language. It is a true tour de force... Something tells me Eliana Ramage is on the way to the stratosphere herself.

Margaret Renkl

Who else could bring together the story of a two-month scientific expedition to a dying glacier in Antarctica with a meditation on the capacity of human community to save ourselves, each other, and perhaps even the ice itself? ...Only Elizabeth Rush could do that.

Margaret Renkl

Sometimes I read a novel so completely absorbing...that entering it feels like coming home... With @patrickryannyc’s “Buckeye” that spell was so strong I couldn’t start a new novel for two solid weeks... I loved this book more than I can say. I absolutely loved it.

Margaret Renkl

Sweetness and laugh-out-loud escapades follow this cast of misfits—a bereaved father, a bereaved sister, two bereaved children, and a cat who can predict death—down the highway... How does a book involving so much grief keep making me laugh till I cry?

Margaret Renkl

Maybe you think you know how the children of hippies always turn out, but Group Living will disabuse you of all your assumptions. At its heart this book is a recipe for belonging and acceptance. It asks a simple question: What if we all learned to live together truly?

Margaret Renkl

I was lucky enough to have the chance to read “Art Work” back in the spring, when it was just a sheaf of pages, and it lit a profound fire in me... Read this book by @sallymannofficial. It will make you brave.

Margaret Renkl

Reese built a powerhouse of an online book club because she is someone who reads continually... and who has therefore spent her whole life preparing to bring that empathy and that human understanding and that sense of what makes a story irresistible all together in a debut novel.