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.
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire DedererStephanie DanlerErudite and unpretentious, ruthlessly honest, a searching self portrait as well as moral inventory of good artists doing bad things.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisStephanie DanlerRIP to Mike Davis last week, the writer and thinker who colored my Los Angeles. I felt like he had so much more to say. If you are remotely interested in this sprawling mess of a city, this is THE book.
Paperback, 2018
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Goodby People
Gavin LambertStephanie DanlerA fucking delight, LA in the late 60s in all its delusional counter-culture grandeur & garbage. Read if you like Isherwood’s diaries (or Isherwood anything), or obvi “The White Album.”
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Carl PhillipsStephanie DanlerCarl Phillips poems are like dark glitter. I love the way he uses nature and animals to express longing.
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
From the New World: Poems 1976-2014
Jorie GrahamStephanie DanlerSuch a large absence - shall it not compel the largest presence? From “From the New World” by @jorie_graham. #NationalPoetryMonth https://t.co/D6g8cN2inV
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heroines
Kate ZambrenoStephanie DanlerPrevalent in all Zambreno’s writing is this: no boundary between literature and living. She is always in conversations with the greats who shaped her, always wringing out the present moment to find connections. If you haven’t read this book, it’s a rare combo of brainy and fun.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi ThorpeStephanie DanlerYour book of the summer lands today. How did @rufithorpe create a story that is both brilliant and….happy?! Warm but unsentimental? An ensemble where every single character is indelible, hilarious, well intentioned and fucked up?
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganStephanie DanlerRead this at 3am, in a jet lag mania, will be haunted for the rest of time. What a perfect piece of art. Foster next.
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book