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Lauren Mechling Book Recommendations

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Senior Editor @guardianus; co-author of The Memo, a “time slip” novel coming out from Harper Perennial and other publishers on planet 🌎 in June ‘24

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Book Cover for: The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Secret History

Donna Tartt
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

@sanjanamv OR you can go deep and lose yourselt to the podcast while reading Donna Tartt's The Secret History as a companion text??!!

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

“My own recent experience will testify to the fact that fashionable circles are forever trying to recruit the celebrated detectives of the day.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

Paperback, 2001

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: When Will There Be Good News?, Kate Atkinson

When Will There Be Good News?

Kate Atkinson
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

When will there be good news. Aka when will there be a new Kate Atkinson.

Paperback, 2010

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel, Jane Stanton Hitchcock

The Custom of the Country: Based on Edith Wharton's 1913 Novel

Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

Unsolicited best books of 2021, Christmas edition: Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country. Divinely craven. Like Real Housewives except better decor and clothing and pacing and characters. Plus they don’t beep out the c word (it’s in the title). https://t.co/Syi8BVZVrc

Paperback, 2000

$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Fourth Child, Jessica Winter

The Fourth Child

Jessica Winter
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

Next in unsolicited Best Books of 2021: The Fourth Child by @winterjessica. I didn’t actually read it in 2021, but it came out in 2021, which is more than we can say about my other picks! For anyone who cares abt. reproductive rights, and fans of Trust Exercise + Courtney Love. https://t.co/DY8vXbgBkA

Paperback, 2022

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

Unsolicited best books of 2021, Christmas edition: Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country. Divinely craven. Like Real Housewives except better decor and clothing and pacing and characters. Plus they don’t beep out the c word (it’s in the title). https://t.co/Syi8BVZVrc

Paperback, 1997

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Elizabeth Taylor

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Elizabeth Taylor
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

@Bksandauthors Elizabeth Taylor's Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Paperback, 2021

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Memo, Robert W. McBride

The Memo

Robert W. McBride
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

A contributors page = a first! (The newspaper took out that i now work at a rival newspaper, and that my next book is called The Memo and it’s a future bestseller but cool to say my daughter is now an internationally published photographer!) https://t.co/vUpPrloWq2

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Book Cover for: The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications, Emily Oster

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

Emily Oster
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

The Unexpected, the latest book by the economics professor, examines the uncomfortable and embarrassing parts of pregnancy that no one talks about.

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Charles Yu
Lauren MechlingLauren Mechling

How cool is @charles_yu for not bragging about having written a novel that oh happened to win the National Book Award in his Twitter profile? (INTERIOR CHINATOWN, available all over the place.) https://t.co/tbaaTTFDNN

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book