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Michiko Kakutani Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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.

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Book Cover for: Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Anne Applebaum
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

Books to read on Putin, Russia, and Ukraine (1 of 2) = Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin. by Fiona Hill. = The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. by Timothy Snyder = Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. by Anne Applebaum

Paperback, 2018

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Experience: A Memoir, Martin Amis

Experience: A Memoir

Martin Amis
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

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
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Book Cover for: While Justice Sleeps: A Thriller, Stacey Abrams

While Justice Sleeps: A Thriller

Stacey Abrams
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes: her obsessions with public policy and pop culture come together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels. by ⁦@sarahlyall⁩ https://t.co/JtdHmq4R8I

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner), Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings (Booker Prize Winner)

Marlon James
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

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
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Book Cover for: The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Cormac McCarthy

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels. by @xanalter via @nytimes https://t.co/Vw3mzL8hv2

Paperback, 2007

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, Peter Pomerantsev

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

Peter Pomerantsev
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

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, 2015

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin, Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin

Margaret Atwood
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

To those who seek to stop young people from reading ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ - Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more. By Margaret Atwood. via ⁦@TheAtlantic⁩ https://t.co/i8Dn5bb7By

Hardcover, 2006

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn

Coal Miner's Daughter

Loretta Lynn
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

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, 2021

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Marlon James
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

My review of Marlon James' new novel "Black Leopard, Red Wolf." An Epic Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics https://t.co/giNLJ5NIdS

Paperback, 2020

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: East, West: Stories, Salman Rushdie

East, West: Stories

Salman Rushdie
Michiko KakutaniMichiko Kakutani

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
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