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Gilbert Cruz's book club picks and book recommendations
Gilbert Cruz’s book club picks
Gilbert Cruz has picked 11 books for the book club on The Book Review. The latest is Orbital by Samantha Harvey, first picked in February 2025. Every pick, newest first:
Gilbert Cruz’s most recommended books
- James by Percival L. Everett
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- On Writing by Stephen King
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
- London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Gilbert Cruz is an American literary critic and editor who serves as the editor of The New York Times Book Review. On episodes of The Book Review podcast, Cruz discussed and recommended several titles across genres. He promoted Min Jin Lee's novel American Hagwan and suggested readers return to her debut book Free Food for Millionaires. Discussing Peter Straub's bibliography with guest Stephen King, Cruz noted Ghost Story as a wonderful novel and shared that his own favorite of Straub's is the long novel Floating Dragon. Cruz also previewed Marlon James's return to literary fiction with The Disappearers, introduced a biography of Roy Cohn titled American Scoundrel by Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark, and highlighted Robert Kolker's narrative non-fiction book The Vanishing Family about a family facing genetic dementia. Additionally, he discussed Nathaniel Philbrick's history of the California Gold Rush, titled The Rush: California Gold: The Civil War and the Making of the Modern World, and previewed the fifth installment of Solvej Balle's ongoing series titled On the Calculation of Volume (Book V).
Books recommended by Gilbert Cruz
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James
James by Percival L.
Discussed“the big winner last night a the national book awards as expected by many was one of the books on our list this was James by pel Everett”
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Say Nothing
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe is a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland that investigates political violence, justice, and the heavy personal cost of what individuals kill and die for.
Discussed“hopefully many of our listeners have already read say nothing but in the event they haven't do what you've been doing for the past 6 years and tell us about it”
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a harrowing, post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that follows a father and son walking through a devastated landscape.
Discussed“So today, we're going to dig in on one of those books, number 13 on the list, The Road by Cormac McCarthy.”
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On Writing
Stephen King's On Writing is a celebrated hybrid of memoir and practical manual that chronicles the author's formative struggles and recovery while offering direct, invaluable advice for aspiring writers on craft, discipline, and the mechanics of prose.
Discussed“But I think often about what Stephen King wrote in on writing.”
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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical fiction novel that reimagines the antebellum South by turning the secret network of abolitionist routes into a literal subterranean railway system utilized by an enslaved woman named Cora seeking freedom.
Discussed“I spoke to Coulson Whitehead as part of this podcast series about his book The Underground ril Road and he said something to the effect when talking about the steps that led to that book”
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Pachinko
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a sweeping historical novel that chronicles four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family living in Japan, struggling against deep-seated discrimination and hardship.
Discussed“Her book Pachinko had just been voted one of the best books of the 21st century by the hundreds of authors who participated in that [music] project.”
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The Candy House
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan is a compelling novel that functions as a structural sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, exploring themes of memory, technology, and interconnected lives.
Discussed“14 years ago in 2022 she put out a followup to that book The Candy House both share the same structure a series of stories”
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a profound narrative nonfiction book chronicling the decades-long mass migration of Black citizens leaving the American South for northern and western cities.
Discussed“this week I'm joined by is Isabel Wilkerson author of the 2010 book the warmth of other Sons The Epic story of America's Great Migration it is the best non-fiction book of this Century as chosen by just over 500 respondents to our poll from earlier this summer”
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Midnight in Chernobyl
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham is a gripping historical account documenting the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster.
Discussed“Adam higen Botham will be here to talk about his new book midnight in Chernobyl the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster”
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London Falling
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe is a true-crime narrative and investigative work by the acclaimed New Yorker reporter.
Recommended“This is London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe. Patrick Radden Keefe is back.”
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All Fours
Miranda July's novel All Fours explores relationships, midlife, and identity in a deeply unconventional way.
Discussed“Why is all fours by Miranda July here? I mean, it just, you know, it's so funny.”
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Gone Girl
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn is a psychological thriller novel that explores the dark, complex mechanics of a toxic marriage through unreliable narration and shifting perspectives after a woman mysteriously disappears.
Discussed“Tina Gong Girl by Gillian Flynn. That's the number one book on this list. Number one by a darn mile.”
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Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel is a historical fiction novel that chronicles the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII.
Discussed“in 2009 there was a book published called Wolf Hall. What a book. I know, what a book.”
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel structured as a kaleidoscope of interconnected narratives exploring the passage of time, ambition, memory, and the shifting music industry.
Discussed“today I'm joined by Jennifer Egan who released a visit from the Goon Squad in summer 2010 14 years ago in 2022 she put out a followup to that book The Candy House”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“we had Robert Kon a few months ago for the 50th anniversary with the power broker and I always think about him being able to describe the dirt in the Texas Hill Country”
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A Marriage at Sea
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst is a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck detailing a couple who abandoned life on land to sail across the ocean.
Recommended“Marriage at Sea, a true story of love, obsession, and shipwreck, made it onto the book reviews top 10 books of 2025, and it was one of my personal favorites last year as well.”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic American novel by Harper Lee that explores themes of racial injustice and moral growth in the American South.
Discussed“because though as you say to Kill a Mocking Bird is is pretty universally read in America signed in in junior high school or middle school”
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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a celebrated classic horror novel about a haunted mansion and psychological isolation.
Discussed“Victor, I'd love it if you can read the first paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House. I'm happy to.”
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Master of the Senate
Master of the Senate by Robert A.
Discussed“volume three Master of the Senate won the Pulitzer Prize”
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Fire Weather
Fire Weather by John Vaillant is a harrowing work of narrative non-fiction that tells the true story of the massive 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire against the backdrop of a changing, hotter world.
Discussed“we've reviewed several of those books at the book review in firew weather a true story from a hotter World John Valiant tells the tale of the massive 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire”
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The other 925 books Gilbert Cruz recommended or discussed, ranked
- Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
- Learning from Silence by Pico Iyer
- Lone Women by Victor LaValle
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby
- The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman
- The Outsider by Stephen King
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
- Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
- Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
- My Brilliant Friend by Chiara Lagani
- My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgård
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
- Fun by Unknown
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Wolf Hall by Mantel Hillary
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
- Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- The egg and I by Betty MacDonald
- America's Bank by Roger Lowenstein
- Doomed to succeed by Dennis Ross
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Witch Elm by Tana French
- Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
- Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen
- Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
- Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
- Sticky Fingers by Joe Hagan
- The unstrung harp, or, Mr. Earbrass writes a novel by Edward Gorey
- The Wager by David Grann
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- Conclave by Robert Harris
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
- Dutch by Edmund Morris
- Erasure by Percival Everett
- Good Material by Dolly Alderton
- How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
- It by Stephen King
- Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
- The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- Shrinks by Jeffrey A. Lieberman
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- The folded clock by Heidi Julavits
- The Pigeon Tunnel by John le Carré
- 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
- American heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
- Autumn by Ali Smith
- Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
- Knife by Salman Rushdie
- Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
- Mike Nichols by Mark Harris
- No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Spare by Prince Harry
- Stay True by Hua Hsu
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
- The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- We the People by Jill Lepore
- by Unknown
- 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
- A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Cocktails with George and Martha by Philip Gefter
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Different Seasons by Stephen King
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Fuzz by Mary Roach
- Gerald's Game by Stephen King
- Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman
- Just Kids by Patti Smith
- King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
- My Name Is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
- Oscar Wars by Michael Schulman
- Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King
- Outline by Rachel Cusk
- Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
- Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- The noble hustle by Colson Whitehead
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- Theft by Finding by David Sedaris
- There There by Tommy Orange
- These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
- These Truths by Jill Lepore
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- The Note by Alafair Burke
- Spent by Alison Bechdel
- Working by Robert A. Caro
- Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
- Madonna by Mary Gabriel
- Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell
- Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Train dreams by Denis Johnson
- The second coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon
- At Sea by Sophie Loss
- The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
- American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
- Coders by Clive Thompson
- The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
- The World by Richard N. Haass
- A Flag Worth Dying For by Tim Marshall
- Are you my mother? by Alison Bechdel
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Politics and Ideology of Planning by Tim Marshall
- The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner
- Endurance by Scott Kelly
- Rogue heroes by Ben Macintyre
- The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- The source by Martin Doyle
- Blue by Joe Domanick
- Challenger by Adam Higginbotham
- Da Capo best music writing 2000 by Peter Guralnick
- Greater Gotham by Mike Wallace
- Heroes by Stephen Fry
- Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick
- Man of my time by Dalia Sofer
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
- Smart George by Jules Feiffer
- Teeth by Mary Otto
- The Blue Touch Paper by David Hare
- The death and life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
- The Games by David Goldblatt
- The Holly by Julian Rubinstein
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- The last flight of Poxl West by Daniel Torday
- The Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam
- Wagnerism by Alex Ross
- Why Comics? by Hillary Chute
- Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim
- Women and Power by Mary Beard
- Year of Lear by James Shapiro
- America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton
- American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein
- American War by Omar El Akkad
- An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Be the Parent, Please : Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat by Naomi Schaefer Riley
- Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
- How To Be A Victorian by Ruth Goodman
- How to raise an adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Imperfect Union by Steve Inskeep
- Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway
- MCU by Joanna Robinson
- Minor Detail by عدنية شبلي
- Mortal Republic by Edward J. Watts
- Poisoner In Chief by Stephen Kinzer
- Republic of Spin by David Greenberg
- Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Suspended sentences by Patrick Modiano
- Swell by Jill Eisenstadt
- The Art of Screen Time by Anya Kamenetz
- The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
- The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
- Ties by Domenico Starnone
- Tokyo Ueno station by Yu Miri
- Underland by Robert Macfarlane
- Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
- We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust by Rafael Medoff
- What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
- Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino
- Your Black Friend by Ben Passmore
- Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
- Empire of cotton by Sven Beckert
- Hamlet Globe to globe by Dominic Dromgoole
- Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight by Julia Sweig
- The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker
- The plague and I. by Betty MacDonald
- The Whistler by John Grisham
- Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
- Atticus Finch by Joseph Crespino
- Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
- Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
- Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
- Dopesick by Beth Macy
- Dumpty by John Lithgow
- Enough Said by Mark Thompson
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
- EXIT WEST by Moshin Hamid
- Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
- Frank by Barney Frank
- How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith III
- Let There Be Light by Liana Finck
- Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio
- Mythos by Stephen Fry
- Patient H. M. - A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
- Prairie fires by Caroline Fraser
- The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs
- The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
- The Fair Chase by Philip Dray
- The Free World by Louis Menand
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
- The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
- This Land by Christopher Ketcham
- Winter Work by Dan Fesperman
- Antitrust by Amy Klobuchar
- Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette
- Code girls by Liza Mundy
- Cry Havoc by Michael Signer
- Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green
- Divided we stand by Marjorie Julian Spruill
- Doppelganger by Naomi Klein
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng
- Everything under the heavens by Howard W. French
- Extreme Measures by Jessica Nutik Zitter
- Famous Father Girl by Jamie Bernstein
- Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
- Getting Grief Right by Patrick O’Malley, Ph.D.
- Girls & sex by Peggy Orenstein
- Good Grief by Teresa Masters
- Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows
- Halliwell's Film Guide by Leslie Halliwell
- Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls
- How America lost its secrets by Edward Jay Epstein
- Jaws by Peter Benchley
- Joan by Katherine J. Chen
- Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
- Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson
- Love and Lies by Clancy Martin
- Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
- On such a full sea by Chang-rae Lee
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Overkill by Paul Offit
- Project 333 by Courtney Carver
- Reagan by Bob Spitz
- Resilient Grieving by Lucy Hone
- Saving Justice by James Comey
- Self-Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
- Simply Living Well by Julia Watkins
- Sunburn: A Novel by Laura Lippman
- The case against sugar by Gary Taubes
- The Court and the World by Stephen G. Breyer
- The diver's clothes lie empty by Vendela Vida
- The education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- The End of October by Lawrence Wright
- The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
- The Fallen by Carlos Manuel Alvarez
- The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
- The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey
- The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
- The Inevitability of Tragedy by Barry Gewen
- The Last Million by David Nasaw
- The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
- The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
- The Queen by Josh Levin
- The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
- The test by Anya Kamenetz
- The throwback special by Chris Bachelder
- The undoing project by Michael Lewis
- The Vapors by David Hill
- The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
- The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale
- Weather by Jenny Offill
- What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Why time flies by Alan Burdick
- Wicked by Gregory Maguire
- Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
- Your Black friend and other strangers by Ben Passmore
- A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Shining by Jon Fosse
- A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson
- Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
- Absolution by Alice McDermott
- Against Breaking by Ada Limón
- All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
- American Han by Lisa Lee
- American Scoundrel by Kai Bird
- Angel Down by Daniel Kraus
- Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Authority by Andrea Long Chu
- Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
- Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
- Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
- Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
- Cave Mountain by Benjamin Hale
- Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Class by Stephanie Land
- Cloud Atlas by David Stephen Mitchell
- Clown Town by Mick Herron
- Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
- Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt
- Days of Love and Rage by Anand Gopal
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
- Ducks by Kate Beaton
- Exhalation by Ted Chiang
- Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson
- From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey by Edward Gorey
- Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum
- Ghost Story by Peter Straub
- Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta
- Ghosts by Edith Wharton
- Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
- Golden Age by Wang Xiaobo
- Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
- Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
- How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
- In Love by Amy Bloom
- In the gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
- Independent people by Halldór Laxness
- Jesus Wept by Philip Shenon
- John and Paul by Ian Leslie
- Kills Well with Others by Deanna Raybourn
- King Sorrow by Joe Hill
- Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
- Life Out of Order by Audrey Niffenegger
- Locking up our own by James Forman
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Medicine River by Mary Annette Pember
- Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
- New and Collected Hell by Shane McCrae
- New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe
- Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry
- Now I Surrender to You and That Is All by Álvaro Enrigue
- Ominous Music Intensifying by Alexandra Teague
- On the Calculation of Volume (Book V) by Solvej Balle
- On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward
- One Way Back by Christine Blasey Ford
- Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
- Philip Roth by Blake Bailey
- Ply by Hernan Diaz
- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
- Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
- Replaceable You by Mary Roach
- Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Slow Horses by Mick Herron
- Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
- Something in the water by Catherine Steadman
- Sonny Boy by Al Pacino
- Strangers in the Land by Michael Luo
- Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
- Take My Word for It by LeVar Burton
- Tasha by Brian Morton
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
- The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
- The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves
- The Book of Love by Kelly Link
- The Club by Leo Damrosch
- The Colossus of New York by Colson Whitehead
- The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) by Abraham Verghese
- The Crash by Freida McFadden
- The Deep Places by Ross Douthat
- The destiny of the republic by Candice Millard
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- The dot & the line by Norton Juster
- The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
- The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
- The Future Was Now by Chris Nashawaty
- The Great Contradiction by Joseph J. Ellis
- The Guest by Emma Cline
- The Gunslinger by Stephen King
- The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
- The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
- The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
- The Land and Its Peoples by David Sedaris
- The Legacy by Mary Stanbery Watts
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
- the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks
- The North water by Ian McGuire
- The Optimist's Telescope by Bina Venkataraman
- The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie
- The Price of Peace by Zachary D. Carter
- The road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson
- The Rush by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- The Tragedy of True Crime by John J. Lennon
- The Vanishing Family by Robert Kolker
- The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson
- The Witch by Marie NDiaye
- The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
- The Wounded Generation by David Nasaw
- This Close to Happy by Daphne Merkin
- This Land Is Your Land by Beverly Gage
- Transcription by Ben Lerner
- True Crime by Patricia Cornwell
- Vanishing Treasures by Katherine Rundell
- War and turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
- Water Mirror Echo by Jeff Chang
- We Do Not Part by Han Kang
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Whistler by Ann Patchett
- Wuxia America: The Timely Emergence of a Chinese American Hero by Michael DeMarco
- Yoko by David Sheff
- You learn by living by Eleanor Roosevelt
- You Like It Darker by Stephen King
- You'll grow out of it by Jessi Klein
- ???? ? ???? ???? ????? ??? ? ??? by Erica L. Moffett
- 1848 by Mike Rapport
- A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
- A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas
- A far cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- A god in ruins by Kate Atkinson
- A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself by Peter Ho Davies
- A life of my own by Claire Tomalin
- A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
- A Promised Land by Barack Obama
- A Very English Scandal by John Preston
- A word child by Iris Murdoch
- A World Appears by Michael Pollan
- A world in disarray by Richard N. Haass
- Academy and the Award by Bruce Davis
- Acting Up by David Hare
- Airships by Barry Hannah
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
- All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
- America's bitter pill by Steven Brill
- American Carnage by Tim Alberta
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Among The Janeites by Deborah Yaffe
- And the Show Went On by Alan Riding
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Animals by Emma Jane Unsworth
- Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
- Artemis by Andy Weir
- Audacity by Jonathan Chait
- Avid Reader by Robert Gottlieb
- Baggage by Alan Cumming
- Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits by John Merriman
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli
- Before and After the Book Deal by Courtney Maum
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz
- Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
- Ben-Gurion by Anita Shapira
- Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
- Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott
- Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
- Biographical Dictionary of World War II by Mark Mayo Boatner
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell
- Black House by Stephen King
- Black Silent Majority by Michael Javen Fortner
- Blight by Emily Monosson
- Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips
- Blood in the water by Heather Ann Thompson
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- Blood, Bones, & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
- Bonk by Mary Roach
- Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs by Kerry Howley
- Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Bridget Jones's baby by Helen Fielding
- Broken Harbor by Tana French
- Butter by Asako Yuzuki
- Calypso by David Sedaris
- Can't stop, won't stop by Jeff Chang
- Capital by Karl Marx
- Careless Love by Peter Guralnick
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Cattle Kingdom by Christopher Knowlton
- Chapterhouse Dune by Frank Herbert
- Charged by Emily Bazelon
- Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
- Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick
- Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
- Churchill and Orwell by Thomas E. Ricks
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- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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- Poems and Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
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- Promise Me, America by Joe Biden
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Python's Kiss by Louise Erdrich
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- Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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Questions about Gilbert Cruz’s book recommendations
What book does Gilbert Cruz recommend most?
James by Percival L. Everett. Gilbert Cruz recommended it in 6 episodes, with 2 explicit recommendations.
How many books has Gilbert Cruz recommended on podcasts?
We have found 945 books Gilbert Cruz recommended or discussed, across 357 episodes of 1 podcast. Ad reads and passing mentions are not counted.
What books are on Gilbert Cruz's reading list?
The books Gilbert Cruz has recommended most on podcasts are James by Percival L. Everett, Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, On Writing by Stephen King and The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The full book list below has all 945.
What books has Gilbert Cruz picked for the book club?
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, My Brilliant Friend by Chiara Lagani, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, Erasure by Percival Everett, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride and Good Material by Dolly Alderton, and 3 more, newest first.
What did Gilbert Cruz recommend on The Book Review?
James, Say Nothing and The Road, among 945 books in all.
What is the latest book Gilbert Cruz recommended?
Pachinko, discussed on The Book Review (2026-10-09).
People who recommend the same books
Appearances
Other mentions (927: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
Passing Badlands
“It's inspired a bunch of art. The Terrence Malik filad lands, the Bruce Springsteen album, Nebraska, now Other Worlds Than these.”
Passing Nebraska
“It's inspired a bunch of art. The Terrence Malik filad lands, the Bruce Springsteen album, Nebraska, now Other Worlds Than these.”
Passing Fleishman Is in Trouble
“She is also the author of two novels herself, Flechman is in trouble and Long Island Compromise, the latter of which was deeply influenced by The Corrections.”
Passing Long Island Compromise
“She is also the author of two novels herself, Flechman is in trouble and Long Island Compromise, the latter of which was deeply influenced by The Corrections.”
Passing The Corrections
“She is also the author of two novels herself, Flechman is in trouble and Long Island Compromise, the latter of which was deeply influenced by The Corrections.”
Passing Bleak House
“I love bleak house. Um, it was so depressing. So depressing.”
Passing Freedom
“they eventually ended up making up nine years later when she picked uh freedom. Freedom didn't stick. So, it was all fine.”
Passing The Great Gatsby
“I will quote a book titled The Great Gatsby, which says, "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."”
“You may remember Marlon James from his book um A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the Booker Prize in 2015.”
Passing American Prometheus
“Kai Bird is also interesting because he was the co-author of American Prometheus. It was the Pulitzer winning biography that eventually got adapted into the movie Oppenheimer”
Passing Hidden Valley Road
“So, his last book, Hidden Valley Road, which was one of the book reviews top 10 books of 2020, was about this family.”
Passing In the Heart of the Sea
“the reason I brought up boats is because I think if you know Nathaniel Filick, you might know him best as the author of In the Heart of the Sea. This was uh a book that told the true story of the Essex”
Passing MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
“And that true life story and that true life story ended up inspiring Moby Dick, which is supposedly one of the great works of American fiction.”
Passing Biological War
“For this week's episode, I wanted to revisit the conversation I had with Jacobsen last year since she now has another book out, Biological War: A Scenario, which is equally gripping.”
Passing Nuclear War
“That was my frightening conversation with Annie Jacobsen about her book Nuclear War:”
Passing Murder On The Orient Express
“Murder on the Express and some of the more obvious Agatha Christie books.”
Passing In the Woods
“So the three books of Frenches that are on this list are In the Woods, which came in at number three, The Likeness, which came in at number 34, and Broken Harbor, which came in at number 20.”
Passing The Likeness
“So the three books of Frenches that are on this list are In the Woods, which came in at number three, The Likeness, which came in at number 34, and Broken Harbor, which came in at number 20.”
Passing Gone Girl
“And you know, Gong Girl made into a well-known David Fincher movie starring Ben Affleck and and Rosman Pike.”
Passing Mystic river
“Clint Eastwood directed the movie adaptation of Mystic River and that was that was an extraordinary movie nominated for best picture”
Passing Shutter Island
“Shutter Island was directed by Martin Scorsesei.”
Passing The Constant Gardener
“you know, the constant gardener was made into an amazing movie.”
Passing Yesteryear
“One of them is a title that MJ just hosted a book club episode about that is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.”
Passing A Marriage at Sea
“thank you very much for speaking to us about your new book, A Marriage at Sea.”
Passing We the People
“Jill Lepore is the author of We the People, A History of the US Constitution, and the forthcoming The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which is out in August.”
“Jill Lepore is the author of We the People, A History of the US Constitution, and the forthcoming The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which is out in August.”
Passing Shutter Island
“So, there's one summer where I had Shutter Island, the Dennis Lehane novel.”
Passing Hiroshima
“I had Hiroshima, which was the John Hersey Wow. uh book that was originally published in full in The New Yorker about um the atom bomb.”
Passing Pride and Prejudice
“I think I brought Pride and Prejudice cuz it had been a very long time since. So, those were the four books I brought.”
Passing Other Worlds Than These
“It's coming out in October, and it's called Other Worlds Than These. It is the third in the Talisman trilogy.”