Stephanie Danler 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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Stephanie Danler is an author. Novelist, Memoirist, & Screenwriter. Author of STRAY & SWEETBITTER, creator of @sweetbitterstarz. Author of SMOG, forthcoming from Scribner Books.
Time Is a Mother
Ocean VuongStephanie DanlerI’m reading Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, and I’m drawn to people writing about mother loss or the mother wound. His work pierces me completely.
Paperback, 2023
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Running in the Family
Michael OndaatjeStephanie DanlerFuck, I wish I had read this before I had a written a memoir. Fuck, fuck, fuck…It’s the kind of book that feels alive in your hands – impressionistic, writhing, liberated (& liberating).
Paperback, 1993
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Phyllis RoseStephanie DanlerThe best book on marriage I’ve ever read. A new all time favorite, I have underlines on almost every page.
Paperback, 1984
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Biography of X
Catherine LaceyStephanie DanlerCatherine Lacey’s brain is extraordinary and this novel is the literary, suspenseful, faux-artist bio I didn’t know I needed. It surprised me by filling a Donna Tartt/Siri Hustvedt/Ali Smith shaped hole in my heart, but with Lacey’s erudition and strangeness.
Hardcover, 2023
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Michael OndaatjeStephanie DanlerA memoir with no trauma plot. Just indelible characters, a lush & dangerous landscape, and a voice. It was especially fun to read it as I was listening to @empirepoduk about the British empire in India... Different topics to be sure, but one is so gory (the pod) and the other remarkably light...
Paperback, 1993
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A Hundred Lovers: Poems
Richie HofmannStephanie DanlerThe poems are really spare and very erotic, and I’m always drawn to poems about desire. But I’m often looking to make that desire complicated and Hofmann’s poems really do that ... I loved that push and pull between the classical and restraint with the kind of gross and dirty.
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Dayswork
Chris BachelderStephanie DanlerThe joy of reading this book. Ostensibly about a woman’s pandemic obsession with Melville, it is also about Elizabeth Hardwick, the work of biography, the human cost of a piece of art, and mostly, marriage.
Hardcover, 2023
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A Thousand Acres
Jane SmileyStephanie DanlerI’m still in awe of Smiley. It’s Great American Novel stuff: compelling, rich, transportive.
Paperback, 2003
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All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems
Linda GreggStephanie DanlerLinda Gregg’s poems are so poignant, they’re almost like hymns. They’re about presence and absence and leave you on the precipice of an epiphany.
Paperback, 2011
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Playworld
Adam RossStephanie DanlerI can’t say I’m surprised by the rave reviews in every major publication, but I can say it’s well-deserved. Happy pub day to this absolute masterpiece, a narrator, story, & vision of NYC that has stayed with me since I read an early draft nearly two years ago.
Hardcover, 2025
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