Ed Park’s Recommended Reading List
Photograph of Ed Park by Bewowulf Sheehan
Ed Park is the author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Personal Days (2008), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. In celebration of his anticipated debut story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis, releasing tomorrow, July 29th, 2025 - he shares his recommended reading list with us below!
To learn more about Ed and his inspiring career, visit here.
“Fascinating and compassionate case studies that are more than the sum of their parts…Aviv is a genius.”
“Who knew that the first Korean-American novelist was also one of the funniest? A richly eye-opening work of art that vividly describes race relations and the immigrant experiment of a century ago.”
“One of the best memoirs I’ve ever read, up there with Speak, Memory.”
“Narrator Linda lusts after airplanes—not pilots, but the planes themselves. And it gets even more twisted. Folk makes this offbeat, edgy premise believable; she has an amazing comic gift.”
“I adore this book—so funny, emotional, and smart. And full of squirrels. And if you don’t believe me: Ursula K. LeGuin was a fan!”
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