Rabih Alameddine's Reading List

“I’m at an age where little embarrasses me,” he said in an email interview. As for fury: “I stop reading at mildly irritating.” SCOTT HELLER

By the Book: Rabih Alameddine (2025)

NYT By the Book column (2025-09-25).

Thomas Bernhard · Buy on Amazon

"rereading soon, because his disgust with the world seems appropriate these days"

Janet Evanovich · Buy on Amazon

"A good friend was shocked that I liked Janet Evanovich's One for the Money."

Antonio Muñoz Molina · Buy on Amazon

"Antonio Munoz Molina's Sepharad. Also, Peter Nadas's A Book of Memories."

Péter Nádas · Buy on Amazon

"What's your favorite book no one else has heard of? Sepharad. Also, Peter Nadas's A Book of Memories."

Gerbrand Bakker · Buy on Amazon

"The Hairdresser's Son, by Gerbrand Bakker, a slow-burn delight of a novel."

Joe Keenan · Buy on Amazon

"My third reread of Joe Keenan's Blue Heaven."

Olga Tokarczuk · Buy on Amazon

"Olga Tokarczuk's Flights would have blown her away."