Author
Amor Towles
Amor Towles is the American novelist behind A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), The Lincoln Highway (2021), Rules of Civility (2011), and the Table for Two (2024) short story collection. Towles spent twenty years as an investment banker before turning to fiction full-time and his novels have become some of the most consistently recommended contemporary American literary commercial titles of the past decade.
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Years active
2011-2024
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Our reviews of Amor Towles's work
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 2011 review. A working-class Manhattan secretary navigates 1938 New York society. Towles's debut and the literary commercial breakthrough before A Gentleman in Moscow.
Table for Two
by Amor Towles
Table for Two by Amor Towles 2024 review. Six New York stories and the Eve in Hollywood novella that continues Rules of Civility into 1938 Los Angeles. Towles's first short-fiction collection.
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 2016 review. Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced in 1922 to lifelong house arrest at the Hotel Metropol. Towles's second novel and one of the most consistently recommended contemporary American literary commercial titles of the past decade.
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 2021 review. An eighteen-year-old released from juvenile detention in 1954 plans to drive west with his brother. Two escaped inmates have other plans. Towles's third novel.
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 2016 review. Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced in 1922 to lifelong house arrest at the Hotel Metropol. Towles's second novel and one of the most consistently recommended contemporary American literary commercial titles of the past decade.
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles 2011 review. A working-class Manhattan secretary navigates 1938 New York society. Towles's debut and the literary commercial breakthrough before A Gentleman in Moscow.
Table for Two by Amor Towles 2024 review. Six New York stories and the Eve in Hollywood novella that continues Rules of Civility into 1938 Los Angeles. Towles's first short-fiction collection.
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles 2021 review. An eighteen-year-old released from juvenile detention in 1954 plans to drive west with his brother. Two escaped inmates have other plans. Towles's third novel.