One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Buzzfeed, and Entertainment Weekly, Time, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, The Huffington Post, BookPage, Time Out, BookRiot
¡°Station Eleven is so compelling, so fearlessly imagined, that I wouldn¡¯t have put it down for anything.¡±
- Ann Patchett
¡°A superb novel . . . [that] leaves us not fearful for the end of the word but appreciative of the grace of everyday existence.¡± -San Francisco Chronicle
¡°Deeply melancholy, but beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac . . . A book that I will long remember, and return to.¡±
- George R. R. Martin
¡°Absolutely extraordinary.¡± -Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus
¡°Darkly lyrical. . . . A truly haunting book, one that is hard to put down.¡± -The Seattle Times
¡°Tender and lovely. . . . Equal parts page-turner and poem.¡±-Entertainment Weekly
¡°Mesmerizing.¡± - People
¡°Mandel delivers a beautifully observed walk through her book¡¯s 21st century world¡¦. I kept putting the book down, looking around me, and thinking, ¡®Everything is a miracle.¡¯¡±-Matt Thompson, NPR
¡°Magnificent.¡± -Booklist
¡°My book of the year.¡±-Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
¡°Unmissable. . . . A literary page-turner, impeccably paced, which celebrates the world lost.¡± -Vulture
¡°Haunting and riveting.¡±-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
¡°Station Eleven is the kind of book that speaks to dozens of the readers in me-the Hollywood devotee, the comic book fan, the cult junkie, the love lover, the disaster tourist. It is a brilliant novel, and Emily St. John Mandel is astonishing.¡± -Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers
¡°Think of Cormac McCarthy seesawing with Joan Didion. . . . Magnetic.¡± -Kirkus (starred)
¡°Even if you think dystopian fiction is not your thing, I urge you to give this marvelous novel a try. . . . [An] emotional and thoughtful story.¡± -Deborah Harkness, author of The Book of Life