Here are 29 books that will shake you out of your stasis
Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos Courtesy of Publisher If you’ve found it hard to concentrate for long periods of time during the coronavirus pandemic, never fear — here are 29 books that might yet make you want to read again.
$26 at Amazon Buy $26 at Amazon Buy The Lightness, by Emily Temple $27 $27 The comparisons tossed around for Emily Temple’s debut could hardly be more tantalizing. Chloe Benjamin called it “the love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French.” Others have compared Temple to Ottessa Moshfegh and Emma Cline.
$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman $26 $30 now 13% off $26 Charlie Kaufman is the rare screenwriter who is as celebrated as the directors who have brought his mind-bending scripts to the screen. Now he’s a novelist too. Antkind follows a failed film critic who stumbles across the greatest film of all time — a three-month-long, stop-motion masterpiece that took 90 years to make and has since been destroyed, save for a single frame.
$18 at Amazon Buy $18 at Amazon Buy Sex and Vanity, by Kevin Kwan $19 $27 now 30% off $19 The Crazy Rich Asian author’s latest is an homage to E.M. Forster’s Room With a View. It follows Lucie Churchill, a half-Chinese woman amidst an identity crisis. She has always favored her white side and rejected her Asian heritage, so when she meets a man named George Zao and begins to fall for him, she adamantly tries to deny it.
$28 at Amazon Buy $28 at Amazon Buy Pew, by Catherine Lacey $26 $26 Imagine this: A child appears in your small town’s church. Its gender identity and sex are unclear. Its skin offers only the barest hints about its race. And it refuses to, or cannot, speak a word. The child is given the nickname Pew and taken in by a family bent on reminding the child of their charity and goodness. But the longer Pew stays, the more the town’s ancient grudges break to new mutiny.
$21 at Amazon Buy $21 at Amazon Buy Luster, by Raven Leilani $26 $26 In this debut novel from Raven Leilani, set between Bushwick and suburban Jersey, Edie, a sexually precocious publishing staffer, meets and falls in …. something with Eric, a married man swiping through apps on a lark. What stands out here is Leilani’s prose , which is breathless, frantic, and reads like a Twitter wit grew legs and an IRL identity.
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