Jamie Carr is a literary agent with The Book Group. She joined The Book Group in January 2020. A senior agent at TBG, she champions award-winning debuts, commercial book club fiction, and expert-driven nonfiction at the forefront of culture. Her titles have been chosen as Indie Next, Target Book Club, and Book of the Month picks. SheÕs also had books featured on NPRÕs Best Books of the Year list, GMA (Buzzworthy segment), USA TODAYÕs Bestseller List, and nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards, to name just a few. Previous to TBG, she was at William Morris Endeavor for almost six years. Born and raised in Lower Manhattan, she has an MFA in fiction writing and began her publishing journey in the books department of Tin House.

Jamie represents novelists, journalists, and experts in culture, food, sobriety, finance, millennial and Jewish issues, and more. Most interested in adult literary and upmarket commercial womenÕs fiction and narrative nonfiction, she is drawn to writing that is voice-driven, highly transporting, from unique perspectives and marginalized voices, and that seeks to disrupt or reframe what appears to be known.

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A few books I loved reading in my free time… Counterfeit by Kristen Chen, Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson, Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai, Listen for the Lie by Amy Tinterra,Shmutz by Felicia Berliner, You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith, Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi, and Stay True by Hua Hsu.