Margaret Renkl Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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

I have been waiting for this book since I turned the last page of Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson’s book before this one. https://t.co/2ioZ93wYZr

Margaret Renkl

Smart, funny, and shot through with aching love, “This Is How A Robin Drinks” is both a call to action and a balm for the solastalgic heart. This profoundly beautiful, desperately necessary book will change the way you see the world and every living thing within it, including yourself.

Margaret Renkl

I wish I could adequately describe the beauty of the storytelling in Time of the Child... The characters are so fully alive and so fully human that I missed them whenever I put the book down, and I still miss them now. They made me laugh out loud, and they made me weep...

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

.@NaturalistDara's utterly remarkable book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, is finally available in the U.S. thanks to @Milkweed_Books. I'm so happy to see the @nytimes celebrating his tremendous gift. https://t.co/Cb7qywNzAr

Margaret Renkl

...a new favorite novel ... I call it a novel, but it’s more like a hybrid of both fiction and memoir ... So many perfect sentences. So many wrenching truths. So many feelings I recognize so completely it's like they formed in my own bone marrow.

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