Book · 2019 · Fiction
Ninth House
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I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh bardugo called ninth house which is set at Yale so I was Yale undergraduate and if you know Yale you know that there are anything about there are these secret societies that people of a certain type get can't apply... Conceited the book is that the secret societies are in fact evil.
What they say about it
- Discusses writing the novel2
- Mentions the bestselling fantasy novel“bestselling fantasy novel”2
The best things said about it
Lee bardugo will be here to talk about her bestselling fantasy novel the 9th house.
I'm hibernating and to keep me company during that time I am reading Ninth House, the first book in the series.
Then I branched into novels for adults and that's where ninth house and hellbent came in.
I started researching leino back when I was working on 9th house I had given my heroin Alex Stern a similar a similar background to mine.
4 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House is a dark fantasy novel set at Yale University that follows a protagonist tangled up with the campus's occult secret societies. On The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz introduced Leigh Bardugo to discuss the instant New York Times bestseller, exploring plot points involving Yale and the suspicious circumstances surrounding the protagonist's admission and hidden strings attached. Paul Krugman recommended the fantasy novel on The Ezra Klein Show as his final recommendation, noting that his background as a Yale undergraduate gave him a particular appreciation for the book's premise involving the university's secret societies. MJ Franklin recounted on The Book Review that she read the first book in the series while sick and hibernating during the pandemic to keep herself company. In further discussions on The Book Review, Leigh Bardugo explained her transition into writing darker adult novels such as Ninth House and Hell Bent, and detailed how she incorporated elements of her own background and research into Ladino for the protagonist Alex Stern. Listeners and commentators recommend the novel for its immersive blend of dark academia, supernatural mystery, and sharp institutional critique, praising Bardugo's ability to ground fantastical elements within a vividly rendered, atmospheric university setting that subverts traditional tropes.
Every mention
Gilbert Cruz Lee bardugo will be here to talk about her bestselling fantasy novel the 9th house 3
“Lee bardugo will be here to talk about her bestselling fantasy novel the 9th house”
“she's here to talk about her new book an instant New York Times bestseller as they say it's called 9th House”
“so that sounds suspicious auspicious and yet suspicious that she would be offered this place at Yale very much so there are many strings attached”
Paul Krugman I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh bardugo called ninth house which is set at Yale so I was Yale undergra… 1
“I just read a fantasy novel by Leigh bardugo called ninth house which is set at Yale so I was Yale undergraduate and if you know Yale you know that there are anything about there are these secret societies that people of a certain type get can't apply... Conceited the book is that the secret societies are in fact evil”
Leigh Bardugo then I branched into novels for adults and that's where ninth house and hellbent came in 2
“then I branched into novels for adults and that's where ninth house and hellbent came in”
“I started researching leino back when I was working on 9th house I had given my heroin Alex Stern a similar a similar background to mine”
MJ Franklin I'm hibernating and to keep me company during that time I am reading 9inth House the first book in the series 1
“I'm hibernating and to keep me company during that time I am reading 9inth House the first book in the series”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“First is Lee Bugo, the best-selling author behind the Greciverse series as well as the 9inth House Trilogy, which just concluded with the release of her latest novel, Deadbeat.”
“Lee bardugo is the author behind the Shadow and Bone Trilogy the novel's ninth house in hellbent and her latest the familiar”
“the next book I going to be writing is the third in the Alex Stern series that's ninth house and then hellbent and this will be the concluding book in that trilogy”