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Jia Tolentino's Reading List

“A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.”

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By the Book: Jia Tolentino (2019)

NYT By the Book column (2019-08-01).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener · Buy on Amazon
"It's so deft and stunning that I started rereading chunks of it as soon as I was done."
Death's End
Liu Cixin · Buy on Amazon
"The Three-Body trilogy makes insignificance and unknowability and futility seem so spiritually exciting that I felt breathless. I'd join a book club that just discusses it every month for a year."
When You Reach Me
Rebecca Stead · Buy on Amazon
"Everyone tunes me out when I recommend it, since it was written for kids. Their mistake! A really good middle-grade novel — and this book is a phenomenal one — will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace."
Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · Buy on Amazon
"It's so spicy, so riveting, so empathetic and devoted, so alive in the world as it actually is."
Kids These Days
Malcolm Harris · Buy on Amazon
"Most writing about millennials has tended to focus on effects rather than causes... "Kids These Days," thankfully, goes straight for the point."
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Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · Buy on Amazon
"I love books that demonstrate this, like Matthew Desmond's "Evicted," or George Saunders's "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.""
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Furious Hours
Casey Cep · 2019 · Buy on Amazon
"From Casey Cep's "Furious Hours," that Harper Lee was once neighbors with Daryl Hall and John Oates. What?!"
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Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson · Buy on Amazon
"My boyfriend got me a first edition of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" — one of my favorite books of all time."
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · Buy on Amazon
"I've got to read the Lydia Davis translation of "Madame Bovary." I'm having physical cravings for it."

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