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Jesse Peretz’s Book Picks

  1. 1

    American Pastoral

    Philip Roth · 1997

  2. 2

    Notes of a Native Son

    James Baldwin · 1955

  3. 3

    Dubliners

    James Joyce · 1914

  4. 4

    The child in time

    Ian McEwan · 1987

  5. 5

    Written on the Body

    Jeanette Winterson · 1992

  6. 6

    The fifth child

    Doris Lessing · 1988

  7. 7

    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion, Barbara Caruso, Paula Bonet · 2005

  8. 8

    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

  9. 9

    Please kill me

    Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain · 1996

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American Pastoral, Notes of a Native Son, Dubliners and 7 more books selected by Jesse Peretz.

Ten books selected by Jesse Peretz for One Grand.

Source: https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/directors/jesse-peretz

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  1. American Pastoral — Philip Roth
  2. Notes of a Native Son — James Baldwin
  3. Dubliners — James Joyce
  4. The child in time — Ian McEwan
  5. Written on the Body — Jeanette Winterson
  6. The fifth child — Doris Lessing
  7. The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion, Barbara Caruso, Paula Bonet
  8. Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
  9. Please kill me — Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain
  10. Metropolitan Life — Fran Lebowitz