Book Authors

Authors of books recommended by Anthony Jeselnik and Gregg Rosenthal on the JRVP podcast.

Ben Lerner
Nico Walker
Stefan Zweig
Christopher Isherwood
Allan Parks
Edward St. Aubyn
George Eliot
Helen DeWitt
Domenico Starnone
Denis Johnson
Jack Weatherford
Han Kang
Lizzy Goodman
John Darnielle
James Elroy
Elena Ferrante
Ottessa Moshfegh
Magda Szabo
Jen Sincero
Kristen Roupenian
Karl Ove Knaugaard
George V. Higgins
Leila Simani
Chris Dietzel
Sigrid Nunez
Marlon James
Gore Vidal
Ian McEwan
Anna Burns
Tara Westover
Bret Easton Ellis
Elif Batuman
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Ling Ma
Ted Chiang
Sally Rooney
Adam Higgenboth
Tommy Orange
Elmore Leonard
Colson Whitehead
Mohsin Hamid
Ben Lewis
Yoko Ogawa
Patrick deWitt
Warren Ellis
Jia Tolentino
Lucy Ellmann
Jesmyn Ward
Ali Wong
Dave Eggers
John Williams
John Fante
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Lydia Davis
Emily St. John Mandel
Rachel Cusk
Haruki Murakami
Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
Jenny Offill
Patricia Lockwood
Harper Bliss
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Lauren Goff
Brandon Taylor
Kevin Barry
Riku Onda
Kawai Strong Washburn
Olga Tokarczuk
Viktor E. Frankl
Julian K. Jarboe
Don Winslow
C Pam Zhang
Sarah M. Broom
Donna Tartt
Mary South
Miriam Toews
Alex Michaelides
Samanta Schweblin
Lisa Wingate
Benjamin Nugent
Cho Nam-Joo
Erik Larson
Sam Tallent
Delia Owens
Hari Kunzru
Maggie O'Farrell
Byron Lane
Sayaka Murata
Raven Leilani
Lisa Jewell
Rumaan Alam
Sara Gran
Charlie Kaufman
Brian Selfon
Julia Phillips
Douglas Stuart
Ruth Ware
Blake Gopnik
Ayad Akhtar
Madeline Miller
Emma Cline
Wright Thompson
Barbara Demick
Charles Yu
Matt Haig
Michael MacCambridge
Michel Houellebecq
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Alex Pavesi
Maggie Nelson
Brontez Purnell
Asne Seierstad
M.M. Chouinard
Lawrence Osborne
Robert Kolker
Jhumpa Lahiri
Ocean Vuong
Rachel Kushner
Meg Wolitzer
Charles Bukowski
Imbolo Mbue
Colleen Hoover
Tove Ditlevsen
Alex McElroy
Philip Roth
Agatha Christie
Mark Yarm
Gabriel Krauze
Jeneva Rose
Lydia Millet
B.A. Paris
Robert Stone
T.J. Newman
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
Eve Babitz
Alive Feeney
Quentin Tarantino
Megha Majumdar
Stephen King
Lisa Taddeo
Blake Crouch
Eyal Press
Natasha Brown
Liv Constantine
Mieko Kawakami
Linda Bostrom Knausgard
Donald Antrim
A.J. Finn
Dan Ozzi
Katie Kitamura
Andrea Bartz
Herman Diaz
Kate Bowler
Tove Dittlinson
Lydia Millett
Joan Didion
Sonali Deraniyagala
Henry Miller
Hanya Yanagihara
Michelle Zauner
Jennifer Hillier
Thomas Mann
Riley Sager
Susanna Clarke
Peter Swanson
Paul Cantor
Caitlin Doughty
Jennifer Egan
Evelyn Waugh
Justin Tinsley
Kazuo Ishiguro
Fernanda Melchor
Cynan Jones
Hanna Bervoets
Rosie Walsh
Julie Clark
Dan Chaon
Werner Herzog
Colette
Marie Benedict
Howard Bryant
Davey Davis
Weike Wang
Conner Habib
Tom Perrotta
Jill Lepore
Issac Fitzgerald
Gabino Iglesias
Henry James
Kotaro Isaka
Gabrielle Zevin
Patrick Radden Keefe
Emmanuel Carrere
David Milch
Percival Everett
Max Fisher
Maggie Haberman
Pico Iyer
Shehan Karunatilaka
S.E. Boyd
Charlotte McConaghy
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Isaac Fitzgerald
Cormac McCarthy
J.R.R. Tolkien
Walter Tevis
Jonathan Dee
Daisy Johnson
Andrew Sean Greer
Morgan Talty
Hua Hsu
S.A. Cosby
Torrey Peters
Sam Lipsyte
Jordan Harper
Rick Rubin
Louise Erdrich
James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams
Dan Jones
Paz Pardo
Walter Mosley
Mariana Enriquez
Joel Warner
Damon Galgut
Catherine Lacey
Jack Handy
Eli Cranor
Alice Munro
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Steven Wright
R.F. Kuang
Nick de Semlyen
Min Jin Lee
Michael Finkel
Niven Govinden
Ivy Pochoda
Yiyun Li
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
John Milas
Jim Thompson
Anthony Veasna So
Martin Amis
Hiromi Kwakami
James Nestor
Paul Murray
Claire Keegan
P. David Ebersole
Jesse David Fox
Will Hermes
Patricia Evangelista
A.K. Blakemore
Max Marshall
Sheena Patel
Bora Chung
Maylis de Kerangal
Kiley Reid
Delphine de Vigan
David Carr
Ilyon Woo
Kava Akbar
David Mamet
Shoji Morimoto
Keith O'Brien
Michael Holley
George Saunders
Rita Bullwinkel
Cixin Liu
Salman Rushdie
Nick Harkaway
Megan Nolan
Minae Mizumura
Andrew Boryga
Pierre Boulle
Benjamin Labatut
Jack Handey
Adelle Waldman
Alan Hollinghurst
Sam Sax
Tony Tulathimutte
Lev Grossman
Edith Wharton
Valeria Luiselli
Tarjei Vesaas
Michael Mann
Joe Posnanski