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Best books to read after A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad is the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the music industry — time, aging, formal inventiveness. These recommendations continue the Egan canon, explore the formally inventive American novel tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the interconnected story-cycle novel.
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The Candy House
by Jennifer Egan
The companion Egan novel — overlapping characters from Goon Squad in a near-future of shareable memories, formally inventive again and working as a standalone or a continuation.
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Look at Me
by Jennifer Egan
The earlier Egan novel — Charlotte Swenson in New York City and the culture of image and identity, showing the same formal interests and thematic concerns that Goon Squad develops more fully.
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Tenth of December
by George Saunders
The formal inventiveness companion — Saunders's story collection occupying the same space in contemporary American fiction as Goon Squad, both formally innovative and deeply engaged with what American culture is doing to ordinary people.
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
The Pulitzer Prize companion — the Lambert family and American domestic life, Franzen's multi-strand family novel sharing Goon Squad's concern with time, aging, and the damage that ambition and failure do to people.
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Columbine
by Dave Cullen
For readers who engaged with Goon Squad as a meditation on time and violence — Cullen's definitive account of the Columbine massacre as the nonfiction equivalent of Goon Squad's concern with the random violence that can destroy the arc of a life.
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
The music industry British fiction companion — Rob Fleming in a North London record shop, the British equivalent of Goon Squad's meditation on what music means to the people who gave their lives to it.
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
The American postmodern companion — Jack Gladney and the airborne toxic event, DeLillo examining American consumer culture with the same formal self-consciousness that Egan brings to the music industry in Goon Squad.
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
The interconnected story-cycle companion — six nested stories across five centuries, Mitchell's formally inventive structure sharing Goon Squad's commitment to showing how individual lives connect across time.
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