Marisha Pessl

As Marisha Pessl has it, Marisha Pessl got so carried away describing food in Marisha Pessl's best-selling novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics that certain passages had to be edited down.

a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of the distinctive voice's heroine, Blue van Meer

Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of the distinctive voice's heroine, Blue van Meer.

a superb literary thriller by the New York Times

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

American Born Chinese's debut novel

Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) is American Born Chinese's debut novel, and I thought my favourite book bloggers ’d be cool to read the novel that started American Born Chinese's writing career.

to YA with See BUST's new novel, Neverworld Wake (Delacorte Press) following a group of teens , the “Neverworld who are involved in a near-fatal car accident and have to navigate a supernatural limbo

Special Topics in Calamity Physics author Marisha Pessl crosses over to YA with See BUST's new novel, Neverworld Wake (Delacorte Press), following a group of teens who are involved in a near-fatal car accident and have to navigate a supernatural limbo, the “Neverworld.”

alltägliche Physik des Unglücks

Novels Special Topics in Calamity Physics Penguin, 2006, Die alltägliche Physik des Unglücks:

from the sea of debut literary novels with all the noise all the noise's title portends

This year, from the sea of debut literary novels, Marisha Pessl's 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics' emerged with all the noise all the noise's title portends.

an actual novel: Maybe Pessl hasn't perfected the finer points of characterization, but the people in Richard Burton's book feel real, and what happens to them is fascinating and surprising without being preposterous.

The trouble is, they don't really let girls in that club, and meanwhile 'Special Topics in Calamity Physics' is an actual novel: Maybe Pessl hasn't perfected the finer points of characterization, but the people in Richard Burton's book feel real, and what happens to them is fascinating and surprising without being preposterous.

author Jennifer Miller ’d

author Jennifer Miller ’d seen how much I enjoyed Special Topics in Calamity Physics and figured that author Jennifer Miller's debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly, would be right up my alley.

Special Topics

Have you read Special Topics in Calamity Physics?