Book · 2007 · Fiction
Beloved
Pulitzer Prize Winner
#174 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
- mentions
- 28
- people
- 15
- podcasts
- 6
- episodes
- 14
- critical mentions
- 0
I got 30 pages into Beloved and I was like I'm totally screwed, Toni Morrison genius.
What they say about it
- Read it in youth“when I was 11 years old”3
- Removal from school libraries“taking Beloved by Toni Morrison out of our libraries”2
- Attempting to reread“I had an idea to reread Beloved”2
The best things said about it
My first experience was Beloved, and I don't know how old I was, but it was my first experience noticing style on the page right, it has that very unforgettable beginning.
I encountered books like Beloved and Love Medicine and I understood the way that magic and the idea of other worlds.
I tried to read Beloved first. Oh yeah, when I was 11 years old I tried to read Beloved.
Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner, The Bear is a great one.
David Eagleman The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2023 Can you tell us what the book is about? Yeah, for those few people who have not read what is an American classic.
I remember reading, we read quite a bit of, it was Beloved that we first read in high school, Toni Morrison, and that was such a good high school book.
Where and when it comes up
Mentions per year
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How it comes up
15 people who brought it up
- David Eagleman1 mention · 1 rec
- Josh Clark1 mention · 1 rec
- Salamishah Tillet1 mention · 1 rec
- Tina Jordan1 mention · 1 rec
- Gilbert Cruz7 mentions
Tommy Vietor5 mentions- Colson Whitehead3 mentions
- Dan Pfeiffer1 mention
- Dwight Garner1 mention
- Elizabeth Harris1 mention
- Jenna Bush Hager1 mention
- Leigh Bardugo1 mention
Why people recommend it
Beloved by Toni Morrison is a powerful historical fiction novel that tells the harrowing story of Sethe, an escaped enslaved woman haunted by the trauma of her past and the literal ghost of her daughter. Josh Clark recommended the novel on Stuff You Should Know during a discussion about the brutal conditions of chain gangs. Tina Jordan and Gilbert Cruz discussed Morrison's remarkable voice acting for the audiobook on The Book Review, while Salamishah Tillet shared on the same podcast how deeply meaningful the novel is to her personally and artistically. David Eagleman included the book among his top literary recommendations on The Tim Ferriss Show. In terms of public discourse, Jenna Bush Hager referenced Beloved on The Megyn Kelly Show and Las Culturistas to criticize library book censorship. Sadie Stein reminisced on The Book Review about reading the novel in high school, calling it an exceptional educational choice. Additionally, Colson Whitehead appeared on The Book Review to discuss how intimidated he felt attempting to tackle similar historical themes after encountering Morrison's literary genius. Throughout these mentions, speakers underscored the enduring emotional weight, historical importance, and artistic brilliance of Morrison's masterpiece.
Every mention
David Eagleman A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, esse… 1
Recommended
“A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner, The Bear is a great one.”
Josh Clark Um have you ever read a beloved Tony Morrison novel? I feel like I have to say yes. 1
Recommended
“Um have you ever read a beloved Tony Morrison novel? I feel like I have to say yes.”
Salamishah Tillet it's just a beautiful scene so anyway so Morrison's just a beloved obviously is such a big deal to me and M… 1
Recommended
“it's just a beautiful scene so anyway so Morrison's just a beloved obviously is such a big deal to me and Morrison is such a important figure to us all”
Tina Jordan oh one more Tony Morrison reads beloved oh right that's a great one I don't her like graval voice it is ama… 1
Recommended
“oh one more Tony Morrison reads beloved oh right that's a great one I don't her like graval voice it is amazing yeah that's another great one yeah great is a good word for that one”
Gilbert Cruz and there were draft pages of books like her classic beloved about a year ago right after she won the pulit… 7
Discussed
“It also seems that I mean we're roughly the same age that depictions of slavery obviously there was roots and there was beloved but in the last decade or so have almost reexamined it”
Discussed
“and there were draft pages of books like her classic beloved about a year ago right after she won the pulit Sur prise for criticism”
Discussed
“okay beloved by Tony Morrison you have two copies here one of them is a paperback and one of them is a hard cover in a baggie”
Discussed
“I I read it I reread it last week didd it was fate it was Tony Marson bringing us together why were you reading this last week cuz you're such a busy schedule”
Discussed
“can you tell us what the book is about yeah for those few people who have not read what is an American classic”
Discussed
“now let's return to my conversation from last year with Salam Misha tillet about the book beloved by Tony Morrison so when did you first read this book”
Discussed
“how many times if you had to estimate do you think you've read beloved I don't know I don't know it feels like well I've taught it too”
Tommy Vietor specifically yonkin is running an ad attacking mcauliffe for controversy over tony morrison's classic book… 5
Discussed
“specifically yonkin is running an ad attacking mcauliffe for controversy over tony morrison's classic book beloved to help us sort through all this nonsense and tell us what's actually happening on the ground”
Discussed
“terry mcauliffe for vetoing a bill when he was governor that would have forced schools to notify parents when teachers assigned books with sexually explicit content in this case tony morrison's classic book beloved”
Discussed
“it's about beloved you have no idea it's about toni morrison”
Discussed
“his staff passed out copies of beloved during the biden rally and he's out with this video today”
Discussed
“that ad that's for people who may not know this whole controversy over beloved the book tony morris and all the rest of his stuff”
Colson Whitehead I had an idea to reread r beloved and the known world and Middle Passage 3
Discussed
“and I was like I'll read them and see how these great people have tackled the subject and I got 30 pages into beloved and I was like I'm totally screwed Tony Morrison genius”
Discussed
“I had an idea to reread beloved and the known world and Middle Passage and I got 40 pages into bla and I was like I'm totally screwed My God there's no way like I'm not going to learn anything just going to get me more depressed so you put it down I put put it down”
Discussed
“I had an idea to reread r beloved and the known world and Middle Passage”
Dan Pfeiffer not an accident written by toni morrison uh one of america's most prominent if not the most prominent black… 1
Discussed
“not an accident written by toni morrison uh one of america's most prominent if not the most prominent black authors”
Dwight Garner I mean but five years after so but it's true that they don't have the sort of Titanic galvanic force of som… 1
Discussed
“I mean but five years after so but it's true that they don't have the sort of Titanic galvanic force of something like Song of Solomon or or beloved or even The Bluest Eye”
Elizabeth Harris feature a mother who wanted beloved removed from her son's High School curriculum some years ago 1
Discussed
“feature a mother who wanted beloved removed from her son's High School curriculum some years ago”
Jenna Bush Hager But you're taking Beloved by Tony Morrison out of our libraries. 1
Discussed
“But you're taking Beloved by Tony Morrison out of our libraries.”
Leigh Bardugo then I encountered books like beloved and love medicine and I understood the way that magic and the idea of… 1
Discussed
“then I encountered books like beloved and love medicine and I understood the way that magic and the idea of other worlds”
Parul Sehgal yeah my first experience was beloved and I don't know how how old I was but it was my first experience noti… 1
Discussed
“yeah my first experience was beloved and I don't know how how old I was but it was my first experience noticing Style on the page right it has that very Unforgettable beginning”
Sadie Stein I remember reading um we read quite a bit of it was Beloved that we first read in high school Tony Morrison… 1
Discussed
“I remember reading um we read quite a bit of it was Beloved that we first read in high school Tony Morrison and that was such a good high school book.”
Wesley Morris I tried to read beloved first oh yeah when I was 11 years old I tried to read beloved 1
Discussed
“I tried to read beloved first oh yeah when I was 11 years old I tried to read beloved”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“You're taking Beloved by Tony Morrison out of our libraries.”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“This is for Beloved by the way.”
Passing
“I was reading Beloved um after actually left it on the flight, never finished the last three chapters. Have no idea how it ends.”
Passing
“both books arguably exist in the shadow of Tony Morrison's beloved which is like one of the Great American novels full stop”
Passing
“obviously there was roots and there was beloved but in the last decade or so have almost reexamined it”
Passing
“and somebody mentions beloved”
Passing
“that was my conversation from 2022 with salamea tillet contributing critic at large for the New York Times about the book beloved”
Passing
“they will force you to read beloved”
Passing
“he's buying from mussolini no i think it's great i think you're like one step away from having a copy of beloved look i just happened to pick it up”
Passing
“i think you're like one step away from having a copy of beloved”
Passing
“when my son brought home the book beloved by tony morrison i put down my copy of 50 shades and said no a woman named tony not my america”
Passing
“certainly in the 80s when Song of Solomon and beloved were published”
Passing
“I mean I would even say Song of Solomon over beloved where it it's the writer is just trying to hold that much more in her grasp”
Passing
“I I think I was thinking about beloved you have some time to go there might be ghosts coming up”
Passing
“she's been a best seller going back at least to beloved”