4 Books recommended by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and podcast host.
Cheryl Strayed
Book Recommendations
Lives of Girls and Women
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
FictionA poignant portrayal of a young girl's youth in a Canadian town and her awakening to womanhood in the 1940s follows Del Jordan as she explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood and records the frustrations, joys, triumphs, and trials of small-town life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
“My favorite book”
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“one of my favorites”
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Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
FictionThis was no ordinary war. this was a war to make the world safe for democracy. and if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered - not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... this is no ordinary novel. this is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. winner of the national book award.
“Recommended on the Tim Ferriss Show”
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Citizen
Citizen
Claudia Rankine
ARTA provocative meditation on race, claudia rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book don't let me be lonely: an american lyric.claudia rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with serena williams and the soccer field with zinedine zidane, online, on tv-everywhere, all the time. the accumulative stresses come to
“it's just a really important book for us to be reading right now”
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