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Megan Abbott's Reading List

The author, most recently, of "You Will Know Me" keeps a copy of "How to Protect Yourself Against Psychic Attack" on her shelves. "Those who know me well probably wouldn't be surprised."

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By the Book: Megan Abbott (2016)

NYT By the Book column (2016-07-21).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 · Buy on Amazon
"I believe it's the first novel to win the Pulitzer and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, which makes me wonder if superficial genre distinctions really are disintegrating at last."
Beast in View
Margaret Millar · Buy on Amazon
"Margaret Millar's deeply creepy 1955 classic, "Beast in View.""
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · Buy on Amazon
"Never have I had a more tortured relationship with a book. At several points I vowed I could not go on, but I did, and now I can't stop thinking about it. Which has to be a testament to its power."
Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday · Buy on Amazon
"The voice is so strong, so full of heart and heartbreak and rage and sympathy. And it's such a window into a time and place."
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald · Buy on Amazon
"a particularly stunning 1953 British edition of one of my favorite novels, Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night""
Lost Girls
Robert Kolker · Buy on Amazon
"it's really a profoundly moving story of the victims themselves... It's the kind of book that could be dismissed as "ripped from the headlines" true crime, but it's actually interventionist social commentary."
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann · Buy on Amazon
"I'm already anticipating David Grann's "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI." The real-life story about the Osage murders in the 1920s has long fascinated me. It feels like one of those perfect marriages between subject and writer."

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