Books by Jennifer Egan
“Egan’s joyously experimental A Visit From the Goon Squad is one of my favourite books of all time. This new sequel offers an expansion of that roving, playful world, as bit-players from the earlier book take centre stage. As with Goon Squad, each chapter serves as its own standalone short story, many of which employ high-concept literary devices. If, like me, you enjoy both speculative fiction and literary fiction, this will be right up your alley. It’s sharp, funny, and very, very clever—a social critique that never lapses into the portentous.” Read more...
Editor’s Choice: Our 2022 Novels of the Year
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
A Visit From the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
The characters are beautifully drawn, flawed without being obnoxious, but above all Egan understands how time moves and keeps moving
Interviews where books by Jennifer Egan were recommended
Science Fiction Classics, recommended by Adam Roberts
The best sci-fi explores humanity’s anxieties and concerns and is in some sense about the future. But it doesn’t try to predict what’s to come. The literature professor and sci-fi writer recommends five classics of the genre.
Editor’s Choice: Our 2022 Novels of the Year, recommended by Cal Flyn
Author and Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn highlights her favourite novels of 2022—from Jennifer Egan’s highly anticipated follow-up to the multi-award-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, to a debut novel by a twenty-something writer who gave voice to cancer, literally.
