Lauren Groff’s Bookshelf

Author of ‘Florida’ shares her top reads, all by female authors

Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She has won the PEN/O. Henry Award, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, along with several Best American Short Stories anthologies, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and sons.

Lauren’s Bookshelf

1: Middlemarch by George Eliot

2: The Lover by Marguerite Duras

3: The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

4: Bluets by Maggie Nelson

5: Beloved by Toni Morrison

6: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

7:Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye

8: Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick

9: The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

10: Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

11: Head Off and Split by Nikki Finney

12: Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck

13: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

14: The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa

15: Oreo by Fran Ross

See all 40 of Lauren’s picks!

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