Book Recs

Junior Edition #44

Celia McGee

Pay It Forward Book List

Josh Kendall

Joshua Kendall, editorial director of Mulholland Books, recommends five books that were recommended to him that are sure to keep you turning the pages

Dina Nayeri on Behrangi, Golding and Ishiguro

Dina Nayeri

I’ve become a reader three times. The first time, I was barely six and lived in Iran, under the Islamic Republic.

Junior Edition #43

Celia McGee

Jim Shepard on Two Very Different Writers

Jim Shepard

I was the first in my family to go to college, and my father’s not-so-secret plan for getting me there involved A) my getting good grades, and...

Favorite Made-Up Genre

Marcus Sakey

The author of the new thriller Afterlife has selected six novels that present our recognizable world… but with a twist.

Transporting Fiction

Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan, author of the debut novel Salt Houses, recommends five books sure to take you to another place.

Junior Edition #42

Celia McGee

Christina Baker Kline on Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christina Baker Kline

I was six years old; we had recently moved to Maine from Tennessee, and my father read it aloud to my sister Cynthia and me, one chapter at a...

Looking West

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

In this list of recommendations, L.A. transplant and author of the massive hit novel The Nest ,Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney writes...