THE CANDY HOUSE is appearing on multiple Best-of-2022 Lists!!
The New York Times Book Review: TOP 10 Books of 2022!!!
New York Times critic Dwight Garner’s 3 Favorite Novels of 2022
“It’s about technology, about stabs at a collective consciousness, but it’s got a vastly human soul.”
PBS News Hour: 12 Books to Read from 2022
“The effect is even more dazzling than in Goon Squad, a tribute to fiction’s power to access truths that mere information can never convey.”
Philadelphia Inquirer: Top 10 Books of 2022
“When it’s brilliant, they call it speculative fiction.”
The Economist: Top 6 Fiction of 2022 (behind paywall)
“A novel about what humans lose in offering up their private lives to algorithms that mine them for profit…a kind of 21st-century Middlemarch”
Entertainment Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2022
“The novel — with its prismatic plotting and ever-shifting chorus of seekers, kooks, and visionaries — feels less like a house than a honeycomb full of fantastical rooms, each one alive and thrumming with bright, weird humanity.”
Kirkus Editor-in-Chief’s Top 6 Books of 2022
“Such inventiveness, intelligence, and style! This one left me breathless as it explored themes of memory, privacy, family, and more with pure storytelling brio.”
Hollywood Reporter: 10 Best Books of 2022
“Egan’s latest is a beautiful reminder that the literary world has not fallen prey to Hollywood’s existing-IP creative drought.”
Vanity Fair
“After her fiercely spectacular A Visit From the Goon Squad, the odds seemed slim Jennifer Egan could do it again—and yet, she did.”
Mental Floss’s 16 Best Books of 2022
“Following up 2010’s Pulitzer Prize-winner A Visit From the Goon Squad was a tall order, but Jennifer Egan succeeds in spades with her sort-of sequel The Candy House.”
Library Journal: 10 Best Literary Fiction of 2022
Time Magazine
NPR
The Guardian
Publisher’s Weekly
Oprah Daily
Irish Times
Literary Hub
Glamour
Southern Living
Self Magazine **Top 14 Books of 2022**
Book Riot
Hudson News
Vogue
Bookpage
The New Yorker
BBC
Vulture
AbeBooks
Chicago Public Library
New York Post
Next Big Idea Club (**top 10**)
Anticipation for The Candy House
The Candy House is making a number of book lists for 2022.
Catch up on the news, reviews, and interviews for the coming book.
5-Minute Writing Exercise: Unlocking the Unconscious
https://pen.org/pen-to-paper-jennifer-egan/
Extreme End-of-Decade Love for A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD!!
Grateful and Thrilled that GOON SQUAD has somehow remained in the conversation after ten years:
ELLE: 15 Books that Defined the 2010s
VOX: 19 Best Books of Decade
Recap of Jennifer Egan’s experience as a Literature Professor:
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/studying-novels-with-novelist-Jennifer-Egan
Jennifer Egan is currently Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, teaching English 086 in Spring 2018: Self, Image, Community: Studies in Modern Fiction.
https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/jennifer-egan
Manhattan Beach Chosen for the One Book, One New York Summer Read!!
Find out about events and book discussion groups here.
MANHATTAN BEACH is a Finalist for the One Book, One New York read!
Please, help MANHATTAN BEACH to be read widely in the city that inspired it! Voting takes *one second*…really!
Vote Here!!
Jennifer Egan becomes President of PEN America
Friends, colleagues and readers, please immediately join this tremendous organization, dedicated to protecting free speech at home and abroad! It’s crucial…and cheap!
Membership Page
MANHATTAN BEACH longlisted for the Women’s Prize (UK)!!
https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
MANHATTAN BEACH wins the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction!!
http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult
MANHATTAN BEACH has been shortlisted for the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Other finalists are the splendid novels SING UNBURIED SING and LINCOLN IN THE BARDO.
More Information
October 2017: Jennifer Egan to publish new novel, MANHATTAN BEACH with Scribner!!
Starred Kirkus review here.
Starred Publishers Weekly Review here.
Scribner Press Release here.
Entertainment Weekly article here.
Bookseller article here.
Archived site for A Visit from the Goon Squad
The previous version of this site has been archived at goonsquad.jenniferegan.com.
