Brit Bennett

Nov 18, 2024 | dandelionchandelier.com | Lara Vapnyar |Ian McEwan |Brit Bennett |Pamela Thomas-Graham

We’re always looking for our next great read – so what are the best books to read that will make us feel like November? Here’s our take on the perfect books to read that capture the mood and the autumn feels of the month of November. These are our top picks of not just what to read this November – they’re perfect to read any November. recommended reads for the month of NovemberSo many books, so little time! Reading can be one of life’s sweetest luxuries.

Aug 12, 2024 | torontosun.com | Brit Bennett |Kate Mendonca

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Jul 26, 2024 | beccafreeman.substack.com | Brit Bennett |Bonnie Garmus |Rebecca Makkai |Suzanne Collins

Hi friends,I hope after this journey we’re friends, even if you were new here at the beginning of the week. This project has been so fun and rewarding. And surprising! And getting to chat with you in the comments about each day’s list has been the most fun. And we’re finally here… the top 20! The best of the best. But the fun isn’t over yet. Now that the full list is revealed, I’ll be back Monday with some interesting tidbits, data cuts, and comparisons to the New York Times lists.

May 10, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Nella Larsen |Brit Bennett |Kuchenga Shenjé

Reading Lists Kuchenga Shenjé, author of "The Library Thief," recommends stories that delve into race and identity in the U.S. and U.K. In the Summer of 2017, I went to see the European premiere of the Braden Jacobs-Jenkins play An Octoroon. Based on the 1859 melodrama by the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault, it was staged at the Orange Tree Theatre in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. A truly bombastic production that lampooned the tropes of the “tragic mulatto” story in a way that...

Mar 18, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Francine Pascal |John Steinbeck |Brit Bennett |Alice Dreger

Twins are literary gold. We crop up in every genre, for every age, at every level of prestige. Fantasy: Cersei and Jaime Lannister in A Game of Thrones. Elizabethan drama: Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night. Kid lit: Shasta and Corin in The Horse and His Boy. Booker-Prize-winning fiction: Rahel and Estha in The God of Small Things. As for horror, sci-fi, crime, and romance: think of every doppelgänger, clone, and switcheroo plot ever. What makes twins such narrative regulars?