Meredith Maran Book Recommendations
Meredith Maran is a book critic and journalist. Live-tweeting #LaLaLife since 2012.
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
Casey ParksMeredith MaranThe very intensity with which Parks pursues Roy’s story reveals and reflects the depth of Parks’s longing to love herself ... Parks has written a memoir that will serve as a beacon for many others still yearning to no longer feel like misfits.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookSomehow: Thoughts on Love
Anne LamottMeredith MaranIn her trademark godly yet snarky way, she extracts every life lesson from her latest new experience with the deft zeal of a chef reducing flour and fat to roux... Lamott speaks to the human in all of us, challenging us to bear her beam of love, and our own.
Hardcover, 2024
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYou Were Always Mine
Christine PrideMeredith MaranDeciding what to do, Cinnamon deliberates with everyone...These discussions elevate the novel from entertaining domestic drama to enlightening portrait of how race can infuse every decision and interaction, even between close friends.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYour Driver Is Waiting
Priya GunsMeredith MaranTravis Bickle, meet Toni Morrison, in a socially probing, fiercely fun debut novel... It’s rare for a writer to marry such deep social consciousness with a comic, sultry romance, rarer still to pull that off in a way that satisfies and provokes the reader.
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez QuadeMeredith MaranRT @bookcritics: NBCC member @meredithmaran reviewed Kirstin Valdez Quade’s "The Five Wounds" for @latimesbooks: https://t.co/MzR64PRAXQ
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Survivalists
Kashana CauleyMeredith MaranIn today’s America, what constitutes success? What are the obstacles to achieving it? How do race, class, age, and location affect the odds? These oh-so-serious questions are tackled with scathing, lol-inducing wit in The Survivalists, Kashana Cauley’s smart, sharp debut novel.
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookKnocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
Michelle TeaMeredith Maran…Her unmistakable voice: wry, witty, authentic, down-to-earth but also way-up-in-the-clouds. Above all, it’s the self-deprecating, self-aware and ultimately self-loving honesty that distinguishes Tea’s way of life and her irresistible, evocative and wise way of writing about it.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book