Michiko Kakutani Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Michiko Kakutani is a book critic. former chief book critic, The New York Times; author of "Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Re-Read," coming on October 20th.

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
David Remnick
More books 2/2 Lenin's Tomb:The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. David Remnick Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible:Surreal Heart of the New Russia. Peter Pomerantsev The Future Is History:How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Masha Gessen Collected Tales. Nikolai Gogol https://t.co/SJj4bUSI8i
Paperback, 1994
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stay with Me
Ayobami Adebayo
"Stay with Me," a brilliant debut novel by Ayobami Adebayo about love and marriage, loss and redemption. My review: https://t.co/GCP08Z9etB
Hardcover, Large Print, 2017
$37.95$18.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Experience: A Memoir
Martin Amis
Martin Amis's brilliant memoir "Experience" - a book that fuses his humor, intellect and daring with a new gravitas and warmth, an autobiography that is both a loving tribute to his father Kingsley, and a fulfillment of his own abundant talents as a writer https://t.co/XFKDQiiTWp https://t.co/lH42FLklQx
Paperback, 2001
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)
Marlon James
Winner of Man Booker prize- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. my review of this amazing novel: http://nyti.ms/1rffZJb
Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Damon Galgut
RT @TheBookerPrizes: We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #2021BookerPrize is 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut! Watch Damon’s w…
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Colson Whitehead
Anna Deavere Smith on The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: "a heartbreaking tale of what happens to vulnerable youths at the mercy of a system that lacks imagination and compassion." https://t.co/KNpl8JnVeK via @nybooks
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silverview
John Le Carré
Final John le Carré novel, “Silverview” to be published in October. The book, which was finished before his death last December, involves a bookseller who becomes embroiled in a spy leak https://t.co/l6Vfu4KjEE
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Coal Miner's Daughter
Loretta Lynn
In my 1980 interview with Loretta Lynn, she talked about seeing her life on screen in ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’: in “the early parts, you see yourself growing up & you realize it’s not there anymore. And so you feel sad for the parts you’ve lost: you sort of want to pull time back” https://t.co/kBG5gDTtTv
Paperback, Mass Market, 2022
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
RT @PublishersWkly: Take a Look at Tom Wolfe's Draft Outline for 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' | @Gothamist https://t.co/SNiC6OOZTJ https:/…
Paperback, 2008
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
East, West: Stories
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s harrowing 2012 memoir about life under the fatwa, a book echoing w. many of his novels’ perennial themes: the emotional costs of being cut off from one’s past, the cultural clash btwn East &West, the surreal nature of contemporary history: https://t.co/RV4oVm0gXK https://t.co/fesB8nxsjk
Paperback, 1995
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book