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Praise for THE PLOT:
*New York Times Editors’ Choice: “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” (May 23, 2021)*
*New York Times Summer Reading (2021)*
*New York Times Book to Watch for in May*
*Washington Post 20 Books to Read This Summer*
*Amazon Best Books of May*
*LitHub’s May roundup What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign*
*Newsweek 21 Enticing Books to Take Along This Summer* (at the top!)
*People Magazine Book of the Week (May 14, 2021)*
*Entertainment Weekly The 20 best new books to read in May*
*Oprah Daily 20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May*
*PopSugar The 12 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of May Will Leave You With Chills*
*CrimeReads' New Books Coming Out This Week (May 10, 2021)*
*Parade Magazine's 25 Best Books of Summer*
*O Magazine’s 55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021*
*LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021*
*CrimeReads’ Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021*
*Daily Beast The Best Summer Reads of 2021*
*New York Post The 30 Best Books on Our Summer Reading List in 2021*
*Seattle Times Looking for some great summer reading? Here are 8 page-turners to start*
*Reader’s Digest 50 Best Fiction Books To Read This Year*
*AARP: summer book recommendations in June/July print issue*
*AARP’s 20 New Novels for Spring*
*Bustle’s Most Anticipated Novels for Spring*
*Business Insider The best new books of May 2021, according to Amazon's editors*
*The Times’ ‘best books of 2021’*
*The WSJ Summer Thriller Picks*
*Jean Korelitz on Jimmy Fallon*
*Jimmy Fallon Summer Reads 2021*
*Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021*
*Indie Bestseller List for May 26, 2021: #9 in Hardcover Fiction * (for the sales week ended May 23, 2021)
"As a longtime fan of Korelitz’s novels (including ‘You Should Have Known,’ which was made into HBO’s ‘The Undoing’), I will say that I think ‘The Plot’ is her gutsiest, most consequential book yet." – Elisabeth Egan, New York Times
“The plot of ‘The Plot’ is so ingenious that it should be assigned as required reading in the very MFA programs it pinions, both as a model of superior narrative construction and as a warning of the grim realities of the literary life to naive wannabe writers.” – Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post
“‘The Plot’ is wickedly funny and chillingly grim, and like the novel Evan hoped to create, it deserves to garner all the brass rings.” – Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal
“The Plot is one of the best novels I’ve ever read about writers and writing. It’s also insanely readable and the suspense quotient is through the roof. It’s remarkable.” – Stephen King
"The Plot is so well-crafted and compelling it’s nearly impossible to put down. Clever and chilling, this page-turner grabs you from the first chapter and doesn’t let you go until its startling, breath-taking conclusion." ― Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, New York Times bestselling authors of The Wife Between Us
“Deep character development, an impressively thick tapestry of intertwining story lines, and a candid glimpse into the publishing business make this a page-turner of the highest order. Korelitz deserves acclaim for her own perfect plot.”―Publishers Weekly (STARRED Review)
"From its first pages, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot ensnares you in a rich tangle of literary vanities, treachery and fraud. Psychologically acute and breathtakingly suspenseful, you’ll find yourself rushing towards a finale both astonishing and utterly earned." - Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author of Give Me Your Hand
“[A] propulsive tale of deceit and betrayal” – O Magazine
“[A] wickedly clever tale of stolen genius.” – LitHub
“[A] satisfyingly twisty thriller… Gripping and thoroughly unsettling: This one will be flying off the shelves.” – Kirkus
"Jean Hanff Korelitz’s riveting novel is a story within a story that is a Rubik’s Cube of twists. Jake Finch Bonner is living a life he never expected. Instead of fame and fortune, this once-promising young author is teaching MFA seminars at an obscure university and barely making ends meet. Then abrasive, self-important Evan Parker arrives in Jake’s class with a one-of-a-kind plot that he’s confident will rocket him into the kind of success and stardom enjoyed by few in the literary world. And once Jake hears that story, he knows Evan is right, and Jake’s jealousy and self-pity are palpable. But Evan Parker doesn’t publish that book—Jake Bonner does. And someone knows whose plot he stole. Korelitz’s psychological thriller keeps the reader guessing even when the answers seem clear, and when the final piece clicks into place, what you see is the last thing you’d expect." — Seira Wilson, Amazon Book Review
“Korelitz, author of the smash-hit You Should Have Known (2014), effortlessly deconstructs the campus novel and, much like Michael Chabon in Wonder Boys (1995), acerbically mocks the publishing industry. Fearless Korelitz presents a wry and unusual joyride of a thriller full of gasp-inducing twists as it explores copyright, ownership, and the questionable morals of writers.” – Booklist
“Not every 350-page novel can be torn through in a weekend, but readers may find themselves batting away sleep and setting an alarm for early the next day to continue Jean Hanff Korelitz’s propulsive literary thriller, The Plot…The Plot is an ingenious piece of storytelling…Korelitz is an audacious writer who delivers on her promises. Her next big-screen adaptation surely awaits.” – BookPage
"Fans of slow-burn, character-driven thrillers will enjoy this story of an author who has a secret he is desperately trying to keep." – Library Journal
“To say the end of the story is a real twist would be a huge understatement and certainly an ending that was not expected. The Plot is hard to put down and worth the (short) time it takes to read it.” – Judith Reveal, New York Journal of Books
“a droll, elegantly written satirical moan about the vexations and temptations of the struggling writer’s life”
“it’s smart, surprising and stealthily unsettling” reviewed in The Sunday Times
BBC Radio 4 Open Book interview
Chris Power talks to the author behind TV hit The Undoing, Jean Hanff Korelitz, about her latest book, The Plot.
Financial Times review (attached)
“Hanff Korelitz, a veteran of the literary and academic scenes herself, knows how to make them acutely funny.”
“Both a witty satire of the writing and publishing world with much insider knowledge and a tense thriller about jealousy and retribution, this unputdownable read has echoes of Gillian Flynn, Patricia Highsmith and Stephen King, with a surfeit of suspense and characters with secrets, as well as being a true to life X-ray of the way writers’ minds work and, having not read Jean Hanff Korelitz’s earlier books, took me by complete surprise. And yes: the stolen plot twist at the core of the story does come as a major surprise!” Crime Time
“A literary thriller to keep you awake on summer nights.” Metro 4* review
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