Maggie Shipstead is an American journalist and fiction writer. She is the New York Times-bestselling author of three novels and a short story collection. Her novel Great Circle (2021) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize.
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Great Circle
Marian Graves is a daring aviator determined to be the first to fly around the world north-south over the poles. In 1950, near the end of her historic attempt, she vanishes in Antarctica. Hadley Baxter is a scandal-plagued movie star who sees a career lifeline in a new role: the lost pilot Marian Graves. Ranging from a sinking ocean liner to prohibition-era Montana to the skies of wartime Britain and the soundstages of modern Hollywood, the fates of two women collide over geographies and centuries.
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Wonder Boys
By Michael Chabon
Recommended by: Maggie Shipstead
Publish Date: 1995
Grady Tripp is an over-sexed, pot-bellied, pot-smoking, ageing wunderkind of a novelist now teaching creative writing at a Pittsburgh college while working on his 2,000-page masterpiece, Wonder Boys. When his rumbustious editor and friend, Terry Crabtree, arrives in town, a…
On Beauty
By Zadie Smith
Recommended by: Maggie Shipstead
Publish Date: 2005 Awards: 2006 Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction
Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? Set between New England and London, On Beauty concerns a pair of feuding families -…
A Tale for the Time Being
By Ruth Ozeki
Recommended by: Maggie Shipstead
Publish Date: 2013
In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young…