Jodi Picoult's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Leaving Time” hates Russian lit. “You need genealogy charts to just figure out the characters, every novel is a thousand pages and pretty much everyone dies.”

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By the Book: Jodi Picoult (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-10-09).

Source: www.nytimes.com

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler · 2013 · Buy on Amazon

"Also stacked are the books I have recently read and loved: "We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves," by Karen Joy Fowler."

One Plus One

Jojo Moyes · Buy on Amazon

"Books I have recently read and loved: "One Plus One," by Jojo Moyes."

Gone With the Wind

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"I memorized entire passages and could act out scenes between Rhett and Scarlett. It was the first book that made me realize an author could create an entire world out of words."

Book of Life

Deborah Harkness · Buy on Amazon

"I've recently finished Deborah Harkness's "Book of Life." The whole series is like Harry Potter for adults — it's very visually rich."

Where the Wild Things Are

Unknown · Buy on Amazon

"I remember several children's books that were special: "Where the Wild Things Are," "Umbrella," "Little Blue and Little Yellow.""

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Jodi Picoult, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/jodi-picoult-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

Life of Pi

Yann Martel (also rec’d by Michelle Obama ) · Buy on Amazon

"This is the book I wish I’d written. A boy found floating in a lifeboat in the Pacific tells his rescuers a story involving a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a tiger that were in the boat with him. When no one believes him, he says that he was on the lifeboat with three other people, one a bloodthirsty chef who killed the others. His rescuers (and the reader) must decide which version they believe. How can a writer not love a novel that asks to whom a story belongs?"

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders (also rec’d by Lorde ) · Buy on Amazon

"A book I’m still thinking about a year after reading it. When Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie dies, other spirits in the graveyard all have something to say. What results is a collage of narrative that somehow yields a story about grief and loss but also inspiration."

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward (also rec’d by Angie Thomas ) · Buy on Amazon

"Ward is, simply put, a legend in the making. This story haunts me, illustrating how the fierceness of family can be both tender and as destructive as the storm — Hurricane Katrina — that provides the novel’s backdrop."

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