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Nicole Krauss's Reading List

The author of "Great House," "The History of Love" and, most recently, "Forest Dark" prefers to read classic novels on the plane: "Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book."

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By the Book: Nicole Krauss (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-09-07).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Landmarks
Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane · Buy on Amazon
"MacFarlane spent years collecting words from all over Britain, in all of its dialects, which are given in glossaries and read like a gift."
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Grace Paley · Buy on Amazon
"I'm working on short stories, and she knew so well how to be free in them."
The Little Virtues
Natalia Ginzburg · Buy on Amazon
"I found it to be just as great as ever."
The Zürau Aphorisms
Franz Kafka · Buy on Amazon
Cover of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark · Buy on Amazon
"Whose sharp sentences and portraits still feel fresh and vivid."
Cover of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera · Buy on Amazon
"I flat-out loved it. The slow development of the book's loose, intuitive structure that introduces many characters and stories and leaves them to confront each other as it slowly reveals its concerns, is still edgy and unclassifiable 40 years on."
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett · Buy on Amazon
"I thought Claire-Louise Bennett's first novel, "Pond," published here last year, was extraordinary."

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