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Every book Min Jin Lee recommended on podcasts

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Min Jin Lee appears on The Book Review podcast for a special 21st-century books edition discussing her celebrated novel Pachinko. As a guest, Lee emerges as a deeply well-read and reflective author with a profound appreciation for classic literature and the mechanics of storytelling. During her appearance, Min Jin Lee strongly recommended Middlemarch by George Eliot. She noted that she has read the classic text multiple times and praised it as the great social novel. Lee's admiration for Eliot's work highlights her interest in expansive, character-driven narratives that capture the intricate web of societal structures, human ambition, and moral complexity within a community. By championing Middlemarch, Lee connects her own literary sensibilities to a monumental tradition of nineteenth-century realism, offering listeners a glimpse into the classic foundations that inform her perspective as a major contemporary novelist. Her insights on the podcast underscore a lifelong devotion to reading and an acute understanding of what makes a social novel enduringly brilliant.