How I Won A Nobel Prize

Taranto’s hilarious, provocative debut novel, is at once bracingly contemporary and reassuringly familiar … The novel’s peculiar genius lies in how you’re never entirely sure where Taranto’s sympathies lie. * The Times *
A punchy and very funny campus novel which manages to satirise the culture wars without ever making too clear which side of the cancel-culture v anti-woke divide the author stands on * Nicola Sturgeon *
A hit, a very palpable hit * The Spectator *
A first-class debut … [a] masterful satire … quite brilliant * The Irish Times *
A twisty satire with nerve and sass … [An] addictive page-turner * The Mail *
Outstanding * The Wall Street Journal *
Razor sharp … bracingly clever … a viciously funny page-turner with plenty of surprises up its sleeve * Vogue *
A gleefully irreverent satire of so-called cancel culture, virtue signaling, and early-21st-century hypocrisy. * The Atlantic *
Witty and provocative … Taranto understands the appeal of bad-man geniuses, and he understands their dangers, too. – Vox, ‘Best Books of 2023’
Very funny. Very good – B.J. Novak
With How I Won A Nobel Prize Julius Taranto achieves the near-impossible: a literary comedy about cancel culture that is neither priggish nor self-satisfiedly transgressive, less about culture wars than the neverending battle of being human. A novel of ideas in the tradition of Norman Rush’s Mating, How I Won A Nobel Prize is one of the best new novels I’ve read in years. – Tara Isabella Burton, author of Social Creature
A wildly original debut … Can a high-powered male lawyer write a propulsive, smart, funny novel about science, cancel culture, and #MeToo with a female protagonist? Absolutely. It’s exactly what Julius Taranto has done in his debut, How I Won A Nobel Prize. * Publishers Weekly *
A high-wire act, balancing savvy political satire with brilliant character development and prose that sings and guffaws with nuance * Shelf Awareness *
Julius Taranto does an incredible job crafting an ambitious and nuanced narrative abut “cancel culture” that’ll keep you laughing from start to finish. * Coveteur *

Julius Taranto’s fiction has appeared in Phoebe, The Fiddleback, Palimpsest, and Connu. His essay “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books, was one of its most-read articles of the year. He has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Foreign Affairs, and Lawfare. He is an editorial consultant for McNally Editions, the McNally Jackson paperback line, and in his other career is an antitrust lawyer.

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