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Kirsten Menger-Anderson

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Joined 2 years, 11 months ago

Hi! I'm a writer based in San Francisco. My first book, DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN (Algonquin, 2008), is a collection of linked short stories. My novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS comes out on March 18, 2025. More about me and my books on my website: www.kirstenmengeranderson.com

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No cover — Damion Searls, Dubravka Ugrešić (duplicate), André Gide: Marshlands (2020, New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, NYRB Classics)

Christopher Isherwood, Christoph Isherwood: Goodbye to Berlin (Paperback, 1977, Triad)

Elif Shafak: There Are Rivers in the Sky (2024, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

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Carlo Rovelli: The Order of Time (2018, Riverhead Books)

Alan Weisman: The World Without Us (2008, Picador)

Geraldine Brooks: People of the Book (2008, Viking)

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Kirsten Menger-Anderson: The Expert of Subtle Revisions (Hardcover, 2025, Crown Publishing Group, The)

No cover — Richard Cockett: Vienna (2023, Yale University Press)

Olivie Blake: Alone with You in the Ether (Hardcover, 2022, Tor Books)

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Kirsten Menger-Anderson finished reading The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Kirsten Menger-Anderson: The Expert of Subtle Revisions (Hardcover, 2025, Crown Publishing Group, The)

Menger-Anderson debuts with an eloquent story of time travel and family secrets. It begins with …

I wrote this book :)

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Miss Morgan's Book Brigade: 5 stars

Janet Skeslien Charles: Miss Morgan's Book Brigade (2024, Atria Books)

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Educated: A Memoir: 5 stars

Tara Westover: Educated: A Memoir (2018, Random House)

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated The Vulnerables: 5 stars

Sigrid Nunez: The Vulnerables (2023, Penguin Publishing Group)

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Severance: 5 stars

Ling Ma: Severance (Hardcover, 2018, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Severance by Ling Ma

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when …

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated The Wall: 5 stars

Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside: The Wall (Paperback, 1999, Cleis Press)

The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Shaun Whiteside

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated The object of my affection: 5 stars

Stephen McCauley: The object of my affection (1987, Washington Square Press)

The object of my affection by Stephen McCauley

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated You Only Call When You're In Trouble: 5 stars

Stephen McCauley: You Only Call When You're In Trouble (2024, Henry Holt and Company)

You Only Call When You're In Trouble by Stephen McCauley

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Automating Inequality: 5 stars

Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality (2018, St. Martin's Press)

Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

The State …

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Cloud Cuckoo Land: 5 stars

Anthony Doerr: Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover, 2021, Scribner)

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Paris Library: 5 stars

Janet Skeslien Charles: Paris Library (2020, Atria Books)

Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet seems to have the perfect life with her handsome police officer beau and …

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 5 stars

Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction (Hardcover, 2016, Crown Publishing Group NY, Crown)

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil

A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Forbidden City: 5 stars

Vanessa Hua: Forbidden City (2022, Random House Publishing Group)

Forbidden City by Vanessa Hua

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Postmistress of Paris: 5 stars

Meg Waite Clayton: Postmistress of Paris (2021, HarperCollins Publishers)

Postmistress of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton

Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Doppelganger: 5 stars

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …

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