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.

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
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
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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
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While Justice Sleeps: A Thriller
Stacey Abrams
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
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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
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The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthy
Sixteen Years After ‘The Road,’ Cormac McCarthy Is Publishing Two New Novels. by @xanalter via @nytimes https://t.co/Vw3mzL8hv2
Paperback, 2007
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter Pomerantsev
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
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The Handmaid's Tale: Introduction by Valerie Martin
Margaret Atwood
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
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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, 2021
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
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
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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
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