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- The Best Books Set In New YorkReading list
The Goldfinch is one of the best books set in New York. The story follows Theodore Decker, who survives an explosion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Theodore steals a priceless painting called The Goldfinch. This sets off a chain of events that takes him from…
- Ayesha Harruna AttahInterview
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi, House of Stone by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and No Sweetness Here by Ama Ata Aidoo.
- Shane Joseph: The Page Is SacredInterview
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I’ve heard a lot about this book yet its size has daunted me. I’m told it’s Dickensian, and Dickens has always bothered me because he was paid by the instalment, a sort of Netflix of Victorian times.
- Rana FloridaInterview
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt because I read it when I was so naseaus and pregnant and couldn’t get off the sofa, I was so hormonal and emotional and I so wanted to help that little boy who lost his mother!
- George MonbiotInterview
That’s hard to answer, as I have read so many good ones. I would say it’s a toss up between Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth, Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and The Thing Itself by Adam Robert.
- Andrew KlavanInterview
Really depends on who they are and what I think they’d like. For history buffs, From Dawn to Decadence by Jaques Barzun. For recent fiction, probably The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. For great old fiction, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
- Mark MansonInterview
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I’ve been reading a lot of fiction lately, which is not typical for me.
- Cedric VillaniInterview
Some old and more recent, some classics and some more confidential. Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Economie du bien Commun by Jean Tirole, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, The Measure of all Things by Ken Alder, Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky…
- Laura McKowenInterview
Dry by Augusten Burroughs – he’s one of my absolute favorite writers, and I think this is his best memoir (he has several). The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion – simply one of the most incredibly writers. The Secret History by Donna Tartt – she’s best known for Goldfinch, but I believe this is her best work…
- Andrew SalgadoInterview
I don’t know, maybe you can recommend something! I’ve been bored lately with so many books – I’ve probably read 3/4 of about a dozen books and given up. I read 750 pages of The Goldfinch before I just admitted it was the most boring obnoxious crap I’d ever suffered through. I quit The Loney because it was dull as…
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