Megha Majumdar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Megha Majumdar

Happy paperback pub week to brilliant @juliaphillipswrites! I loved this book and its glorious, abundant, untamed interpretations. What does the bear mean, really? I couldn’t pin it down to one meaning... Loved the book’s clear eyed gaze upon financial precarity, and its embrace of wonder too

Megha Majumdar

Morning dip into this beautiful collection. My current favorite essay is about watching bird migrations from the Empire State Building

Megha Majumdar

@suemonkkidd is a treasure, and I feel lucky to have this book, a blend of memoir and thoughts on craft and writing life, to keep on my desk and read early mornings and late nights as I write something new

Megha Majumdar

A river where he’s forbidden to play beckons to a boy and grants him an adventure full of toads, plants, birds, even two new friends and a theater troupe... I chanced upon this French novella from the 1940s and it was so simply and gorgeously about the natural world activating a child’s mind

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The specific menace and danger here, the vigor of the prose on parenting and being parented. Trying to stay in a place of “public influence” to avoid violence at home. And the pair of twists at the end. I was completely captivated by this book.

Megha Majumdar

Book of the summer, I think! Its emotional precision, its stunning evocation of the woods, its exploration of mother-daughter love and trail friendship, and its mystery continue to haunt me.

Megha Majumdar

Few things more peaceful than being up early on a Saturday morning and reading a book of short stories

Megha Majumdar

Favorite story in this collection is “A Light Bird,” about a man navigating his daughter’s request to erase their late mom/wife’s voice from the answering machine. It’s haunting and gentle and quite brutal all at once.

Megha Majumdar

A September 2025 book I loved. So much here on the business of ordinary life... Marriage, children, household duties, memories—what is all of it worth? Is it everything or not very much at all? There’s a refusal to adorn in this book, paired with a devotion to everything minute or small...

Megha Majumdar

This novel is so beautifully and seriously interested in how a person and a life might exist outside ordinary, familiar personhood—in a computer chip, in a video game identity, in friendship which remains true even beyond proximity...in obsession with language.