Pico Iyer 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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Pico Iyer is an essayist and novelist. Born in Oxford, England in 1957, resident since 1992 in suburban Japan and a Benedictine hermitage in Big Sur, California.
Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth StroutPico Iyeran account of the never-ending season of the virus, intimate and immediate as a diary, in which we’re reminded ... that we can’t predict a thing ... another brilliant flash of unexpectedness from the wisest and most alive writer of fiction taking the temperature of America today.
Paperback, 2023
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Operation Shylock: A Confession (PEN/Faulkner Award)
Philip RothPico Iyer“No, a man’s character isn’t his fate,” a character called Philip Roth says in Operation Shylock, “a man’s fate is the joke that his life plays on his character.”
Paperback, 1994
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyPico Iyer“Everybody is born with the faculty to see the miracles. You have to choose not to.” A bipolar character in the late Cormac McCarthy's beautiful but lightless novel, The Passenger.
Paperback, 2023
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm GladwellPico IyerAs Malcolm Gladwell reminds us in his book about talking to strangers, computers can assess people on trial better than human judges. Why? Because too much information can be as deceiving as too little.
Paperback, 2021
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyPico Iyer“We hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing and love no one”—the despairing fear of a millennial in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where are You
Paperback, 2022
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Beautiful Losers
Leonard CohenPico Iyer“Weeds are flowers which no one collects”—Leonard Cohen, in his deranged, speed-fueled novel (which prefigures so much of what the monk and wise man would become) Beautiful Losers.
Paperback, 1993
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Apeirogon
Colum McCannPico IyerThe plutonium core of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Colum McCann tells us in his astonishing (and necessary) novel Apeirogon, was the size of a throwable rock.
Paperback, 2021
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Liberation Day: Stories
George SaundersPico IyerGeorge Saunders has looked at home from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it’s home’s illusions that he recalls—and its battered realities—with extraordinary heart and uncommon brilliance. Book of the year: Liberation Day.
Paperback, 2023
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The Overstory
Richard PowersPico IyerYou don't change lives with an argument; you change them with a story. And that story is Richard Powers's Overstory, which dares to suggest that we've got our lives, the world and our place in it all wrong. Read it and you might see the entire neighborhood anew.
Paperback, 2019
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Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean GreerPico IyerA braiding of America's changes and a deeply private tale, a feat of story-telling elevated by dazzling eloquence and wise compassion, a gripping page-turner as well, The Story of a Marriage, by Andrew Sean Greer is the best novel to cross my desk in ages.
Paperback, 2009
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