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Every book Lauren Christensen recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Lauren Christensen has recommended or discussed 57 books on podcasts, as of September 27, 2024.
- Lauren Christensen has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of September 27, 2024.
- Those books came up in 35 episodes, as of September 27, 2024.
- The 3 books Lauren Christensen has mentioned in the most episodes, as of September 27, 2024: Blood Orange Night, Klara and the Sun and Tar Baby.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Lauren Christensen aired on September 27, 2024.
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Lauren Christensen’s most recommended books
- Blood Orange Night by Melissa Bond
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
- Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
- Luster by Raven Leilani
- A visitation of spirits by Randall Kenan
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Cherry by Nico Walker
- Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
- Friday black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Lauren Christensen appeared on podcasts such as The Book Review to discuss, recommend, and explore various works of contemporary and classic literature. During these discussions, Christensen engaged with listeners and guests about a wide array of fiction and non-fiction titles. She recommended Sarah Manguso's book Liars, which is told from the perspective of a female writer married to an artist. She also talked about reading Emma Cline's novel The Girls, noting how the main character, Eevee, narrates the story from a middle-aged perspective while looking back on her impressionable youth. Furthermore, Christensen discussed Michael Gorra's book Portrait of a Novel, focusing on its connection to Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. She shared her reading of Robert Caro's extensive biography detailing the life of Lyndon Johnson in The Path To Power. Christensen also recommended and discussed Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby after finishing it. In addition, she highlighted Raven Leilani's novel Luster, expressing excitement about finally discussing it on the air. Through these various conversations, Christensen shared her insights into character perspectives, narrative structures, and thematic elements across modern fiction and historical non-fiction alike.
Books recommended by Lauren Christensen
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Blood Orange Night
Blood Orange Night by Melissa Bond is a striking and unusual drug addiction memoir that offers a unique perspective on recovery and sensory perception.
Recommended“this is a more recent book it is called blood orange night it is a memoir by this woman named Melissa Bond she reads it which is something I I really love when an author reads their own Memoir”
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Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a dystopian novel narrated by an artificial intelligence companion observing the shifting human world.
Recommended“and I'll kind of spare all the details but I think I just basically love this book for a lot of the same reasons that I loved a very different story but Kazo ishiguro Clara and the sun I think these are two writers who are just pure storytellers”
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Tar Baby
Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby received thoughtful reflection and recommendation across multiple episodes of The Book Review in July 2024.
Discussed“and Tar baby and Sula and and so much of her work”
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Dept. of Speculation
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Discussed“I hadn't ever read Department of speculation which was on our 2014 best books list”
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Luster
Luster is a striking debut novel by Raven Leilani that explores the complexities of youth, race, art, and modern intimacy.
Recommended“I have been dying to talk about it since I I read it a little bit earlier this summer but but it just came out Raven Leilani's luster”
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A visitation of spirits
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan is a powerful southern gothic novel that explores the struggles of a young gay Black boy named Percy James in a rural North Carolina community, blending magical realism and deep psychological insight.
Recommended“I'm halfway through the late Randall Keenan's debut novel a visitation of spirits”
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a monumental masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature exploring themes of love, family, societal hypocrisy, and tragic fate.
Recommended“and another one that I really loved was Anna kenina brought of before Maggie Gyllenhaal really hits that sweet spot obviously she knows act for the screen but she reads Tolstoy like like she wrote it”
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Cherry
Cherry by Nico Walker is a gritty debut novel following an anonymous narrator who drops out of college to serve as an army medic in Iraq, only to return home battling severe PTSD and opioid addiction.
Recommended“I am reading uh Cherry it's a debut novel by Nico Walker”
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Four Treasures of the Sky
Four Treasures of the Sky is a novel by Jenny Tinghui Zhang that follows a young Chinese woman's harrowing journey of survival in the American West during the era of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Recommended“so I'm reading four treasures of the Sky by an author named Jenny tingu Zang”
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Friday black
Friday black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is a piercing short story collection that confronts modern consumerism, systemic racism, and violence with sharp speculative energy.
Recommended“my one of my favorite books of the year uh was actually a debut short Story collection called Friday Black by nanak kuame a brna”
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Intimacies
Intimacies by Katie M.
Recommended“I just finished Katie kimura's new novel intimacies and I hadn't read her earlier books I'd read the previous one separation and loved it”
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Liars
Liars is a darkly witty and psychologically astute novel by Sarah Manguso that explores the complex dynamics of marriage, female ambition, and domestic resentment from the perspective of a writer married to a visual artist.
Recommended“but I guess just in recent reading and viewing there's Dany senna's colored television as well as Sarah Mango's Liars which are both told from the perspectives of female writers who are married to artists”
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Love That Story
Love That Story is an engaging essay collection written by television personality, hairstylist, and author Jonathan Van Ness.
Recommended“I am here with Jonathan vaness who's the author most recently of love that story and Essay collection”
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb is a candid, deeply personal exploration of human psychology that pulls back the curtain on the therapeutic process from both the patient's and the therapist's perspectives.
Recommended“the first one is definitely maybe you should talk to someone by Lori gotle I think actually it does speak to what we were just talking about in terms of episode podcast structure”
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Portrait of a Novel
Portrait of a Novel by Michael Gorra is a work of literary criticism that examines the creation, publication, and lasting legacy of Henry Jones's classic novel The Portrait of a Lady.
Recommended“I'm reading portrait of a novel by Michael Gora which is s of a book about a book it's about Henry James's the portrait of a lady”
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward is a powerful Mississippi-set novel that functions simultaneously as a raw road trip narrative and a haunting ghost story.
Recommended“and another novel that I had thought of was sing unburied Singh Jasmine Ward's Mississippi novel”
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The Chiffon Trenches
The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley is a bestselling memoir chronicling the late fashion journalist's extraordinary life, rise through the high-society style industry, and experiences as a barrier-breaking Black man in elite spaces.
Recommended“so I just finished listening to the audio book of Andre Leon Tally's Memoir the chiffon trenches”
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The Dutch House
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is an immersive, decades-spanning family saga that traces the complex bond between a brother and sister locked out of their childhood home.
Recommended“I am reading Anne patchett's latest novel The Dutch house I confess I'm certainly not an aacha completist”
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The Girls
The Girls by Emma Cline is a critically acclaimed debut novel that explores the dark and mesmerizing allure of a 1960s cult through the eyes of a vulnerable, impressionable teenage girl.
Recommended“so let me just backtrack to the the plot um Eevee is sort of narrating from later in life she's middle-aged and sort of a drift she she's kind of lost herself and um she remembers a story of when she was a young teenager very impressionable”
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The Path To Power
The Path to Power by Robert A.
Recommended“Im about 400 pages into the more than 3000 in counting pages that robert Carol has written about Lyndon Johnson”
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- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
- The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
- Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
- Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement
- Wild seed by Octavia E. Butler
- A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
- A separation by Katie M. Kitamura
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
- Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
- Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
- Heavy by Kiese Laymon
- Homie by Danez Smith
- Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
- My Brilliant Friend by Chiara Lagani
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Stoner by John Williams
- Sula by Toni Morrison
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Diving Pool by 小川洋子
- The Fraud by Zadie Smith
- The Idiot by Elif Batuman
- The Magician by Colm Tóibín
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Lauren Christensen’s book recommendations by year
All 57 books Lauren Christensen recommended or discussed across 35 episodes, filed by the year each episode came out. Each year goes episode by episode, with the minute every book came up.