Magpie Book Club
By TheFashionMagpie
By TheFashionMagpie
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
$20.00 $18.60Currently reading -- June 2020.
Circe
Madeline Miller
$30.00 $27.90One of my all-time favorite books -- easily the best book I've read this decade.
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
$17.00 $15.81Compulsively readable and true to modern life.
Outline
Rachel Cusk
$17.00 $15.81One of the most inventive and complicated books I've read in recent memory -- presents a narrative with an "anti-narrator" or absent narrator.
South and West: From a Notebook
Joan Didion
$16.00 $14.88Anything Joan Didion writes is worth reading -- sharp, incisive, curious.
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
$18.00 $16.74One of the most powerful books I read in my early 20s -- a sweeping and deftly drawn account of childhood trauma whose narrative structure reads more like a series of concentric rings, rippling outward.
All the Names They Used for God: Stories
Anjali Sachdeva
$17.00 $15.81Easily one of the most unusual, unsettling, and wildly imaginative books I've read in recent memory -- a magical realist take on the intersections between life, fantasy, science, and religion.
What Lies Between Us
John Marrs
$15.95 $14.83For a dark thrill ride. This is all you need to know: "Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there." Um, what?
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
$27.00 $25.11A lot of buzz about this book, which traces the stories of a family across multiple generations, interrogating "the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations." Most intriguing to me? Reviewers have likened Bennett's voice to Toni Morrison.
The Heir Affair
Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks
$28.00 $26.04For a total brain vacation -- much needed!
The Night Watchman: Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction
Louise Erdrich
$28.99 $26.96Ann Patchett described it pithily as follows: "The night watchman is trying to save Native lands while a young woman is trying to save her sister. Gorgeous, brilliant, important — everything you could want in a novel." OK, Ann! I'm in.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Mike Isaac
$27.95 $25.99A close-up look at the rise of Uber, the outsized personality of its storied founder, Travis Kalanick, and a broad interrogation of the venture capital world in the early oughts and beyond.