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ⓘ About V.V. Ganeshananthan
V.V. Ganeshananthan is a published American author, essayist, and journalist. She is known for writing Love Marriage and her novel Brotherless Night. Love Marriage made the longlist for the Women’s Prize and The Washington Post named it one of the top books of the year. She was born in 1980 and is of Ilankai Tamil descent. She has had her writing appear in different media publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and more. The author attended Harvard College and graduated in 2002. While there, she was a managing editor of The Harvard Crimson. V.V. then graduated from the University of Iowa with her MFA in 2005.
All Book Series by V.V. Ganeshananthan
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
Series opener · book 1 of 9 · published 2011
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019
Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2019
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014
Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2014
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Who is V.V. Ganeshananthan?
V.V. Ganeshananthan is a published American author, essayist, and journalist. She is known for writing Love Marriage and her novel Brotherless Night. Love Marriage made the longlist for the Women’s Prize and The Washington Post named it one of the top books of the year.
Which V.V. Ganeshananthan series should I start with?
The best place to start is The Best American: Nonrequired Reading series, the earliest of V.V. Ganeshananthan's multi-book series: it opens with The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) and runs to 9 books across 2011–2019, ending with The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 (2019).
How many books has V.V. Ganeshananthan written?
V.V. Ganeshananthan has 13 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2008 and 2023. 9 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being The Best American: Nonrequired Reading series with 9 books — and 4 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should V.V. Ganeshananthan's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. V.V. Ganeshananthan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Best American: Nonrequired Reading (2011–2019, 9 books).
How are V.V. Ganeshananthan's books organised into series?
This guide splits V.V. Ganeshananthan's 13 books into 1 named series and 4 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Best American: Nonrequired Reading (9 books, 2011–2019).