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George Saunders's Reading List

Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo. Curates favorite books for One Grand Books with detailed personal commentary.

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George Saunders's Top Ten Favorite Books

Top ten curated for One Grand Books with personal notes from Saunders.

Source: onegrandbooks.com

Cover of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"Should be required reading for any white person in America who has felt that familiar combination of heart-sickness and passivity when thinking about race."
Cover of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Angela Nagle · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"This book shot a lightning-bolt of understanding into my mind regarding the role of social media in the terrible political division racking our country."
Cover of Silences
Silences
Tillie Olsen · 1978 · Buy on Amazon
"Language is power, and Olsen does a masterful and compassionate job here of showing who has been denied language in America."
Cover of The Distance Home
The Distance Home
Paula Saunders · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"This story, and the author's heartful understanding of it, has been deeply informing my views on class and addiction in America."
Cover of The Essential Fictions
The Essential Fictions
Isaac Babel · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"I turn to Babel for reassurance that literature is capable of showing the real and terrifying mayhem that results when national systems collapse."
Cover of The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison · 1970 · Buy on Amazon
"Morrison models that capability here in this great novel, and reminds us that the first move in any assessment should be sympathy."
Cover of Words Without Music: A Memoir
Words Without Music: A Memoir
Philip Glass · 2015 · Buy on Amazon
"Read this memoir for a glimpse of a vanished country... that valued [education and the arts]."
Cover of A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
A Grace Paley Reader: Stories, Essays, and Poetry
Grace Paley · 2017 · Buy on Amazon
"Her funny, fond, wild energy produced stunningly beautiful stories, poems, and essays."
Cover of Dispatches
Dispatches
Michael Herr · 1977 · Buy on Amazon
"Herr was one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth-century."
Cover of Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
Nadezhda Mandelstam · 1970 · Buy on Amazon
"This book shows us a much-worse time and its tragic effects on a group of tender friends/lovers/artists."

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