Samantha Irby's Reading List
The comedian and blogger Samantha Irby, whose collection “Meaty” has just been reissued, would love to see celebrities’ grocery lists: “I’m so curious about other people’s daily needs. What’s in your bathroom cabinet right now?”
Open in WellRead Daily app →By the Book: Samantha Irby (2018)
NYT By the Book column (2018-05-10).
Source: www.nytimes.com
Tomi Adeyemi · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
""Children of Blood and Bone," by Tomi Adeyemi"
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi · Buy on Amazon
""Call Me Zebra," by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi"
Hanif Abdurraqib · Buy on Amazon
"I loved, like beyond all measure, Hanif Abdurraqib's "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us." It's a collection of essays about music and culture that are written with such insight and tenderness that I read it in a day and immediately read the whole thing again."
Lindsay Hunter · Buy on Amazon
"The last book I read on a flight to Los Angeles was "Eat Only When You're Hungry," by Lindsay Hunter, and it messed me right up."
W. Kamau Bell · Buy on Amazon
"W. Kamau Bell. "The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell" was so smart and funny."
Erika L. Sánchez · Buy on Amazon
""I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter," by Erika L. Sánchez, would be such a good movie. It's about a very real girl dealing with real girl problems."
Matt Bellassai · Buy on Amazon
""Everything Is Awful," by Matt Bellassai. That dude is so bent out of shape about so many things and so am I. It was like reading my diary."
Ruth Lehrer · Buy on Amazon
"I just finished this book "Being Fishkill," by Ruth Lehrer, that made me ugly cry in a public place"
Favorite books (2021)
Favorite books recommended by Samantha Irby, as compiled by radicalreads.com. Source article: https://radicalreads.com/samantha-irby-favorite-books/.
Source: radicalreads.com
Gillian Flynn (also rec’d by Neil Patrick Harris ) · Buy on Amazon
"One of my friends gave me a hard time for liking this book when she saw my battered, much-loved copy out on the dining room table but I don’t give a shit: this book bangs."
Hanif Abdurraqib (also rec’d by Questlove ) · Buy on Amazon
"Cracks my heart wide open every time I read it, which I’ve done multiple times. The way he writes about music is straight up beautiful. Do you know who can move you to tears over fucking Fall Out Boy??? Hanif."
Alyssa Nutting · Buy on Amazon
"This book is so funny, like gasping and crying funny, and I feel like if I was stuck on a desert island I would want to spend the time I wasn’t sobbing in despair laughing hysterically."
Lauren Beukes · Buy on Amazon
"Terrifying. Horrifying. So good. I love Detroit so much, and thankfully I had my opinion solidly in place before reading this."
Brit Bennett · Buy on Amazon
"This book is just the best. The best. Brit is incredible. You ride the emotional waves of this story right alongside her perfectly flawed and genuine characters."
Charles Soule · Buy on Amazon
"Exhilarating science fiction, which is a wild thing for me to say because I am way too dumb to understand most science fiction. I love it so much and blew through it, which is also bananas because I can hardly read!"
Mary H.K. Choi · Buy on Amazon
"I love YA and I really love books about sad and/or complicated moody teens, especially when there is romance involved. All I ever want is to go back to being consumed by every last one of my adolescent emotions."
Louisa Luna · Buy on Amazon
"I am really into thrillers/mysteries because they are propulsive and go down easy, but I am especially into the ones where you get sucked into the personal lives of the crime solver? Like, yes I want this guy to find these missing girls but also: can his broken heart ever be mended??? Anyway, I would read Louisa Luna’s grocery lists if she published them."
Stephen King · Buy on Amazon
"This is relatively new but I read it when it came out and I’m currently watching the HBO series which is creepy and great. And honestly you could stick any Stephen King book in here and I’d probably be happy? It’s not news that he’s a master storyteller and so good at what he does. Although I do wish he’d tweet less, damn."
Lynda Barry · Buy on Amazon
"You can’t come of age in 90s Chicagoland without falling in love with Lynda Barry vis a vis her weekly comic in The Reader. I have every single one of her books (I mean, duh, come on!) but this one is my favorite."