A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganRead about another entry on the list.
This Pulitzer-prize winning novel is one of my favorite of all time because it’s so unique—a collection of brilliantly dark and often troubled characters whose stories are told in separate chapters that all intertwine in unexpected ways. There’s music executive Bennie, trying to discover the next big thing while also struggling to connect to his young son and wife; his assistant, wild child kleptomaniac Sasha; adisgraced actress, Kitty, who basically sells her soul to return to fame, and so many more larger-than-life, interlocking characters that make this book somewhat of a mix between [Taylor Jenkins Reid's] Daisy Jones, [The Seven Husbands of] Evelyn Hugo, and something you’ve definitely never read before. And if you aren’t ready to give up those characters when you turn the last page, Egan wrote a follow-up that features many of them, Candy House, an Amazon Editors’ pick in which she takes her experimental writing style even further. Our colleague Erin called it, “imaginative, cerebral, and exhilarating.”
A Visit From the Goon Squad is among Julian Gough's ten top books to help you survive the digital age, Marina Benjamin's ten top books about middle age, four books that changed Alison Lester, Jeff Somers's five top books that blur the line between the novel and short story, Gillian Anderson's six favorite books, and Julie Christie's seven favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue
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