№ 01
“I'd read The Dream of a Common Language so often that I'd practically memorized it. In the previous few years, certain lines had become like incantations to me, words I'd chanted to myself through my sorrow and confusion.” source
Author and essayist
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Brave Enough, and Torch. She wrote the Dear Sugar column for The Rumpus and hosted the Dear Sugars podcast for WBUR and the Sugar Calling podcast for The New York Times.
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Recommendations
2020
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Fiction
Most-recommended
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All Cheryl Strayed book recommendations.
№ 02
“I would say my favorite book is Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, which I first read in my early twenties. And it's still good. It gets better.” source
№ 03
“We all have books on our shelves that we've not yet read. I'd never read Lolita.” source
№ 04
“Each of Dermoût's sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger.” source
№ 05
“I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, Tenth of December. He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.” source
№ 06
“An extraordinary, important book, one part memoir, one part reportage, one part searing indictment of our cruel and inhumane immigration system.” source
№ 07
“A tender coming of age memoir, a fascinatingly intimate portrait of the natural world, and an illuminating exploration of race, motherhood, and identity.” source
№ 08
“On Being Human is beautiful and tender, profound and absorbing. I never wanted to put it down. In writing with such clarity and honesty about her jagged path to becoming, Jennifer Pastiloff has told the story of not only herself, but so many of us.” source
№ 09
“It's sadly, I think, not read by a lot of people now. It was a book that was written in the 30s.” source
№ 10
“A really important book for us to be reading right now.” source
Readers with overlapping taste
