Jonathan Safran Foer

4 summariesLiterary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Jonathan Safran Foer is an American novelist. He is known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Here I Am (2016), and for his non-fiction works Eating Animals (2009) and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). He teaches creative writing at New York University.

Books by Jonathan Safran Foer

4 books available

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.0 (380k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell, carrying a tambourine and a boundless curiosity, sets out on a city-wide journey to decode a mysterious key, hoping it will answer the questions and ease the grief from his father's death on 9/11.
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.9 (164k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
A young American Jew goes on a funny, difficult journey through post-Soviet Ukraine with a translator who misuses words, a blind, haunted elder, and an 'undersexed' dog. He wants to find out about his grandfather's past and the woman who saved him from the Nazis.
Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer
4.2 (66k) average on GoodreadsMemoir
Jonathan Safran Foer explores the ethical questions of his family's diet, investigating the hidden realities of industrial farming and the reasons for eating animals.
Tree of Codes
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.9 (4k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
Jonathan Safran Foer carves a new story from Bruno Schulz's *The Street of Crocodiles*, creating a physical book that explores the universal anxiety of life's final day.