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Gish Jen's Reading List

The author of “The Resisters” and other books has put off reading the story collection “Exhalation,” by Ted Chiang. “The title evokes yoga for me,” she says. “And, much as I love yoga, I am allergic to books with a namaste vibe.”

By the Book: Gish Jen (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-02-06).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Homeland

Fernando Aramburu · Buy on Amazon

"I cried at the end."

The Grammarians

Cathleen Schine · Buy on Amazon

"Cathleen Schine's brilliant novel, "The Grammarians," is to die for."

Pig Earth

John Berger · Buy on Amazon

"which so vividly and viscerally bring home what's been lost to modernity."

Conversations With Beethoven

Sanford Friedman · Buy on Amazon

"The Maestro's responses thunder all the more loudly — and more poignantly — for their consignment to white space."

The Unpassing

Chia-Chia Lin · Buy on Amazon

Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips · Buy on Amazon

Heidi

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"My copies of "Heidi" and "Little Women" are still among my most precious possessions."

Little Women

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"My copies of "Heidi" and "Little Women" are still among my most precious possessions."

Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi · Buy on Amazon

Shanghai Redemption

Qiu Xiaolong · Buy on Amazon

The Geography of Thought

Richard Nisbett · Buy on Amazon

Little Soldiers

Lenora Chu · Buy on Amazon

House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · Buy on Amazon

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · Buy on Amazon

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth · Buy on Amazon

A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves

Jason DeParle · Buy on Amazon

The Confusions of Young Torless

Robert Musil · Buy on Amazon

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