Between the Outlook outages, the Nvidia affair that shook up the stock market, and the quick descent into seasonal darkness, it’s been pretty much impossible to stop scrolling this week.
If you’re hoping to put down your phone + pick up a book this weekend, consider curating your reading goals to match your internet fixation du jour…
Placing bets on the odds of an Alix Earle book club now that Sofia Franklyn’s Call Her Daddy-centric memoir has her reading? Embrace friendship feuds in your fiction picks.
Stations by Louise Kennedy
Strange Girls by Sarvat Hasin
Lina & June by Genivieve Wheeler
I Hope Eden Reads This by Eli Rallo
In awe of the timing of Trisha Paytas’s memoir in the wake of the H3H3 affair mess? Consider reads that revel in betrayal, vengeance + satisfaction à la her frenemy beef with the newly-canceled Ethan Klein.
Crying on the Kitchen Floor by Trisha Paytas
Vigil by George Saunders
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
All the Little Secrets by May Cobb
Watching SKIMS advent calendar unboxings out of morbid curiosity? Pick up these scammer stories that are all substance, no filler.
Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft
Citizen Kim by Jonathan Van Meter
Can’t look away from Elon Musk as his tech empire begins to crumble? Discover titles as jarring as the Cybertruck’s death rattle.
The Ruiners by Ellena Savage
Paradox Inc. by Forrest Brazeal
Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler
Muskism by Quin Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
Enthralled by Dax Shepherd’s approach to keeping the spark of marriage alight, and not in a good way? Turn your attention to tales of twisted marriages.
Variations on a Dream by Angélique Lalonde
The Breakup by Kurt Andersen
Evil Genius by Claire Oshetsky
My Husband by Maud Ventura, translated by Emma Ramadan
