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Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, a New York Times bestseller, was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was chosen as New York City’s One Book One New York read. Her previous novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times book prize, and was named one of the best books of the decade by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine, and she recently completed a term as President of PEN America. Her new novel, The Candy House, a sibling to A Visit From the Goon Squad, was published in Apri ...more

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	A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.69 avg rating — 212,438 ratings — published 2010 — 125 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Manhattan Beach 3.62 avg rating — 83,947 ratings — published 2017 — 71 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Candy House 3.68 avg rating — 40,314 ratings — published 2022 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Keep 3.48 avg rating — 15,712 ratings — published 2006 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Look at Me 3.42 avg rating — 13,088 ratings — published 2001 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invisible Circus 3.54 avg rating — 6,788 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emerald City 3.74 avg rating — 3,314 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The best American short stories 2014 by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author), Heidi Pitlor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amanda Urban (Afterword) 3.79 avg rating — 1,698 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Box by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author), Brendan Monroe (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 1,572 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why China? 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Celeste Ng’s new novel, Our Missing Hearts, depicts a disturbing version of the United States, set in the vaguely distant future, rife with...

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Jennifer Egan answered Annalina's question: Given the music-focus in A Visit from the Goon Squad what status does music hold in your own life and has your perception of and relationship with music and the music industry changed after writing the novel? Hi Annalina, this answer is coming two years late--so sorry! I stopped looking at Goodreads for a period, and hope you are still on here! Interestingly, I'm not really a "music person," in that I don't know much about the industry and am not myself a See Full Answer
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“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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April BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 Books move onto Final Poll

The Summer Wives

by Beatriz Williams

9 votes, 22.0%

I Was Anastasia

by Ariel Lawhon

6 votes, 14.6%

The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

by Jennifer Ryan

5 votes, 12.2%

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

by Therese Anne Fowler

5 votes, 12.2%

Manhattan Beach

by Jennifer Egan

4 votes, 9.8%

My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

by Stephanie Dray

4 votes, 9.8%

The Subway Girls

by Susie Orman Schnall

3 votes, 7.3%

Pope Joan

by Donna Woolfolk Cross

2 votes, 4.9%

A Place of Greater Safety

by Hilary Mantel

2 votes, 4.9%

Warlight

by Michael Ondaatje

1 vote, 2.4%

41 total votes

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