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

Happy pub day to @kpboland and this moving, funny novel about a mother and daughter who go on a treasure hunt in the desert. The novel sets up this challenge: Will they find the treasure or won’t they? ... the end is more satisfying than I could’ve imagined.

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

Megha Majumdar

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.