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Sally Rooney's Reading List

The novelist, whose book “Normal People” is new in paperback, used to resist long sentences: “I found Henry James almost unreadable five or six years ago, and now I love him! Who knows what I might get into next?”

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By the Book: Sally Rooney (2020)

NYT By the Book column (2020-02-20).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Family Lexicon
Family Lexicon
Natalia Ginzburg · Buy on Amazon
"I finished Natalia Ginzburg’s very beautiful novel “Family Lexicon,” translated by Jenny McPhee."
The Karamazov Brothers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon
"Dostoyevsky’s “The Karamazov Brothers,” in a translation by Ignat Avsey"
Grand Union
Zadie Smith · Buy on Amazon
"Zadie Smith’s collection “Grand Union”"
A Luminous Republic
Andrés Barba · Buy on Amazon
"Andrés Barba’s forthcoming novel “A Luminous Republic,” translated by Lisa Dillman."
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"I finally finished “Anna Karenina” recently, in a translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I think I can say without controversy that it’s a great book."
Washington Square
Henry James · Buy on Amazon
"I read Henry James’s “Washington Square” for the first time a couple of weeks before that"
The Guermantes Way
Marcel Proust · Buy on Amazon
"last summer I read Proust’s “The Guermantes Way” in the Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation."
Seasonal Associate
Heike Geissler · Buy on Amazon
"One of my favorite books about our present cultural moment is Heike Geissler’s “Seasonal Associate,” an autobiographical work documenting the author’s time working at an Amazon warehouse."
Whose Body?
Dorothy L. Sayers · Buy on Amazon
"I fell in love with Dorothy L. Sayers’s fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey immediately on first encountering him in the 1923 novel “Whose Body?”"
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Buy on Amazon
"I really love Prince Myshkin in “The Idiot.”"
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Emma
Jane Austen · Buy on Amazon
"I also, and less stressfully, love the heroine of Jane Austen’s “Emma.”"

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