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

This beautiful novel is shot through with such tenderness and humanity, such love and courage and beauty and hope, that it feels almost like a prayer. I hope you’ll read it. I hope everyone will read it.

Margaret Renkl

Chloe Dalton’s “Raising Hare” is one of the most delightful books I have ever read in one of the most delightful sub-genres of nature writing there is. It’s more than just a charming wildlife-rescue story... “Raising Hare” is a perfect testimony to the transformative power of love.

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

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

Sold out crowd at @ParnassusBooks1 for @JayWellons5 and his debut memoir, All That Moves Us. Life-and-death storytelling at its most profound and moving. https://t.co/VZDRaJiPlX