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Rachel Cusk's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Transit” is surprised at writers who treasure books as collectible objects. “I treat my books like I treat my shoes: The more I love them, the shoddier they become.”

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Books from Intelligence Squared: Rachel Cusk On Art, Womanhood And Redefining Fiction (2024)

Extracted via LLM (gemini-2.5-flash) from auto-captions of Intelligence Squared (2024-10-22).

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Cover of The Years
The Years
Annie Ernaux · Buy on Amazon
"of we being I mean it's something that Anno does in the Years"
Monique sad
Édouard Louis · Buy on Amazon
"it's very beautifully it's a beautiful book it's very beautifully described this"
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The End of Eddie
Édouard Louis · Buy on Amazon
"if my mother hadn't been terrible I would never have written the book that has saved my mother so suffering no suffering no book no suffering book"
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Marguerite Duras's work
Marguerite Duras · Buy on Amazon
"Marguerite Duras has has um really really so I think this is she somehow does already what what I am so painfully trying to make my my way towards doing"

By the Book: Rachel Cusk (2017)

NYT By the Book column (2017-01-05).

Source: www.nytimes.com

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Larry's Party
Carol Shields · Buy on Amazon
"Carol Shields's Larry's Party. It's as unusual for me to find I've saved — for years, in this case — a coveted book unread as to discover forgotten money in my bank account."
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Silas Marner
George Eliot · Buy on Amazon
"In its brevity and stillness it's almost a painting rather than a book. A profound meditation on impoverishment and love."
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Katherine Anne Porter · Buy on Amazon
"The stories in Pale Horse, Pale Rider gave me so much to navigate by, both personally and artistically."
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The Correspondence
J. D. Daniels · Buy on Amazon
"I recently read J. D. Daniels's groundbreaking collection of short memoirs, The Correspondence."
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Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence · Buy on Amazon
"A signed edition of Women in Love. There's a mark on it where Lawrence rested his pen after signing it."
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Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · Buy on Amazon
"Even now, the events in Little House on the Prairie seem as real to me as my own experiences."
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The Wound and the Bow
Edmund Wilson · Buy on Amazon
"I recently read Edmund Wilson's marvelous The Wound and the Bow."
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Philoctetes
Sophocles · Buy on Amazon
"I could almost chart my major changes in personal and creative direction by my encounters over the years with the foundational Greek dramas."

Favorite books (2023)

Favorite books recommended by Rachel Cusk, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/rachel-cusk-favorite-books/.

Source: radicalreads.com

The Plague
Albert Camus (also rec’d by Jim Morrison & Richey Edwards ) · Buy on Amazon
"Generation after generation, Camus’ novel about a modern city afflicted by the medieval scourge of bubonic plague retains its relevance and freshness as a social metaphor, not to mention as a compelling narrative."

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