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Elena Ferrante's Reading List

Notable reader profiled on radicalreads.com. 40 favorite books recommended in their radicalreads feature.

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Favorite books (2021)

Favorite books recommended by Elena Ferrante, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/elena-ferrante-favorite-books/.

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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (also rec’d by Gabrielle Union, Greta Gerwig , & Lupita Nyong’o ) · Buy on Amazon
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood · Buy on Amazon
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Shokoofeh Azar · Buy on Amazon
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann · Buy on Amazon
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin · Buy on Amazon
Outline
Rachel Cusk · Buy on Amazon
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion (also rec’d by Sam Harris & St. Vincent ) · Buy on Amazon
A Girl Returned
Donatella Di Pietrantonio · Buy on Amazon
Disoriental
Négar Djavadi · Buy on Amazon
The Lover
Marguerite Duras · Buy on Amazon
The Years
Annie Ernaux · Buy on Amazon
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Family Lexicon
Natalia Ginzburg · Buy on Amazon
The Conservationist
Nadine Gordimer · Buy on Amazon
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff (also rec’d by Florence Welch ) · Buy on Amazon
Motherhood
Sheila Heti · Buy on Amazon
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek · Buy on Amazon
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakam · Buy on Amazon
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri · Buy on Amazon
The Fifth Child
Doris Lessing · Buy on Amazon
The Passion According to GH
Clarice Lispector · Buy on Amazon
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Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli · Buy on Amazon
Arturo’s Island
Elsa Morante · Buy on Amazon
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · Buy on Amazon
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Dear Life
Alice Munro · Buy on Amazon
The Bell
Iris Murdoch · Buy on Amazon
Accabadora
Michela Murgia · Buy on Amazon
Le Bal
Irene Nemirovsky · Buy on Amazon
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Blonde
Joyce Carol Oates · 2000 · Buy on Amazon
The Love Object: Selected Stories
Edna O’Brien · Buy on Amazon
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor (also rec’d by Bruce Springsteen ) · Buy on Amazon
Neapolitan Chronicles
Anna Maria Ortese · Buy on Amazon
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004 · Buy on Amazon
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Normal People
Sally Rooney · Buy on Amazon
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy (also rec’d by Liz Phair ) · Buy on Amazon
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000 · Buy on Amazon
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Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 2008 · Buy on Amazon
The Door
Magda Szabò · Buy on Amazon
Cassandra
Christa Wolf · Buy on Amazon
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara (also rec’d by Gabrielle Union & Roxane Gay ) · Buy on Amazon
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar · Buy on Amazon

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