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Allegra Goodman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Brooklyn, NY, The United States
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Influences
George Eliot, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Cynthia Ozick, Leo Tolstoy,
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Member Since
May 2017
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Isola
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2025
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15 editions
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Sam
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2023
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7 editions
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The Cookbook Collector
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published
2010
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22 editions
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The Other Side of the Island
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2008
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13 editions
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Intuition: A Novel
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published
2006
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33 editions
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Kaaterskill Falls
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published
1999
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22 editions
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The Chalk Artist
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published
2017
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11 editions
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The Family Markowitz
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published
1996
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15 editions
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Paradise Park
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published
2001
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13 editions
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This Is Not About Us
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I'm doing the "By the Book" Q&A in "The New York Times Book Review" this summer. These questions are so much fun. Watch for me . . .
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| Ahhh, what a beautiful book. I love the dialogue between Elinor and Marianne and the dialectic between sense and sensibility. What's wonderful as well is that Austen makes it a real debate. Each point of view has its strengths and weaknesses. Each si ...more | |
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| I loved this tender and encouraging book about writing and the writer's life. Sue Monk Kidd captures the challenges and the joys of sitting alone and creating imaginary worlds. I particularly like the way she uses events in her own life and tales of ...more | |
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| This book broke my heart. It also made me think. Yiyun Li writes with clarity about the loss of her sons--but this book is not really about death. It is about her sons' lives. It is about understanding that we can never control other people, not even ...more | |
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| A poignant novel set on a remote Scottish island slated to be cleared of its last inhabitant. I was immediately drawn in by Ivar. His loneliness is palpable. Solitude is practically its own character here. When John Ferguson arrives to evict him I fe ...more | |
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| I loved this memoir of Rabbi Buchdahl's upbringing and spiritual journey. It's the story of a Jew connecting with tradition. It's the story of a faith leader finding her vocation. And it's the story of an American realizing her dream. The book is mov ...more | |
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| You can read this book in one sitting, but the characters and their desperate situation will stay with you. Majumdar challenges us to think about who is guarding whom and who is the thief. She writes with empathy about each person and in the end you ...more | |
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| You can read this book in one sitting, but the characters and their desperate situation will stay with you. Majumdar challenges us to think about who is guarding whom and who is the thief. She writes with empathy about each person and in the end you ...more | |
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| Lily King recommended this book to me and it did not disappoint. I was fascinated by Hazzard's remarkable style, her use of images, her acute sensitivity to mood and motive. Sentence by sentence this is a book to savor. As for the plot, it's sweeping ...more | |
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Allegra Goodman
voted for
Isola
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Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction
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Final Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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“How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
“People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,”
― The Cookbook Collector
― The Cookbook Collector
“I myself was now an island. Solitary. Brambles and five-petalled flowers were my garden. Rocks my furniture. Ocean waves my lessons. Sadness overwhelmed me and sank back. Then, like the tide, joy crept in on me again.”
― Isola
― Isola
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