Chris Bohjalian's Reading List
“I also loved to read in swimming pools, pre-Covid, when vacations were a thing,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “Hour of the Witch.”
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NYT By the Book column (2021-04-22).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"Here are two I've read in the last four years that I recommend often"
Amor Towles · Buy on Amazon
"Here are two I've read in the last four years that I recommend often"
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · Buy on Amazon
"I seem to reread 'The Great Gatsby' more than any other novel, and the ending never fails to leave me happily melancholic."
Ayad Akhtar · Buy on Amazon
"When I was reading Ayad Akhtar's 'Homeland Elegies,' for instance, I'd be at my desk the next morning and try to begin the day writing one sentence with two words as interesting as his pairing 'orphic concordances.'"
Carol F. Karlsen · Buy on Amazon
"the one I like best is 'The Devil in the Shape of a Woman,' by Carol F. Karlsen. Bonus points for the title alone."
Sy Montgomery · Buy on Amazon
"From Sy Montgomery's lovely 'The Soul of an Octopus': An octopus would make a terrible pet, but not because they're dangerous. Rather, they're playful and smart and usually gentle with humans."
Hanya Yanagihara · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that leave me weeping inside. 'A Little Life,' by Hanya Yanagihara, 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue, 'Never Let Me Go,' by Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, and 'Sophie's Choice,' by William Styron, destroyed me in all the best ways."
Emma Donoghue · 2010 · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that leave me weeping inside. 'A Little Life,' by Hanya Yanagihara, 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue, 'Never Let Me Go,' by Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, and 'Sophie's Choice,' by William Styron, destroyed me in all the best ways."
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that leave me weeping inside. 'A Little Life,' by Hanya Yanagihara, 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue, 'Never Let Me Go,' by Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, and 'Sophie's Choice,' by William Styron, destroyed me in all the best ways."
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that leave me weeping inside. 'A Little Life,' by Hanya Yanagihara, 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue, 'Never Let Me Go,' by Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, and 'Sophie's Choice,' by William Styron, destroyed me in all the best ways."
William Styron · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that leave me weeping inside. 'A Little Life,' by Hanya Yanagihara, 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue, 'Never Let Me Go,' by Kazuo Ishiguro, 'Beloved,' by Toni Morrison, and 'Sophie's Choice,' by William Styron, destroyed me in all the best ways."
Franz Werfel · Buy on Amazon
"One Christmas, my wife gave me a 1934 edition of 'The Forty Days of Musa Dagh,' Franz Werfel's epic novel about the heroic stand of 4,000 Armenian men, women and children against the Ottoman Army."
Daniel Keyes · Buy on Amazon
"The books that stuck with me are the ones that are heartbreaking: 'Flowers for Algernon,' by Daniel Keyes; 'To Kill a Mockingbird'; and 'Johnny Tremain,' by Esther Forbes. I can still tell you the last line of all of them."
Harper Lee · Buy on Amazon
"The books that stuck with me are the ones that are heartbreaking: 'Flowers for Algernon,' by Daniel Keyes; 'To Kill a Mockingbird'; and 'Johnny Tremain,' by Esther Forbes. I can still tell you the last line of all of them."
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · Buy on Amazon
"What is a book that engenders empathy? Off the top of my head, that might include 'Between the World and Me,' by Ta-Nehisi Coates."