Rumaan Alam Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Really enjoyed @xwaldie on Joy Williams's Harrow, I couldn't isolate a sentence to quote so just look at the first graph https://t.co/7vnF1KcDcA https://t.co/I9manBuIe2

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A family story, its central focus the bond between a mother and daughter, but like all of Louise Erdrich’s novels, the book broadens to tackle such vast subjects... It’s a thrilling book that reminds us — as if we needed further proof — that Erdrich is one of this country’s greatest writers.

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@austinkleon I feel you might enjoy the makioka sisters, by junichiro Tanizaki

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I wrote about Namwali Serpell’s “The Furrows” for the new @nybooks https://t.co/UntFSBnuNW

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@KeithOB Thanks! Have you read A Children’s Bible, by Lydia Millet? Superb book

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@TheHarderLine I LOVE Sara Levine’s Treasure Island!!!

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The best contemporary novel I read this year was My Phantoms, by Gwendoline Riley; the best non-contemporary novel I read this year was Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor

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marveling at @Danchaon's taste but also his MEMORY.... he did indeed give me Elizabeth Bowen's THE DEATH OF THE HEART 20+ years ago... superb novel!!!!!! https://t.co/iFevEFT37D

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It’s decades since I was a student, but autumn makes me think of going back to school. The best fiction set at a school is Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.

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RT @BookWorld: NOW IN PAPERBACK @Rumaan Alam’s ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a brilliant, suspenseful examination of race and class @eccobook…