Ada Calhoun

Calhoun grew up on St. Marks Place in East Village, Manhattan. She is the only child of art critic Peter Schjeldahl and actress Brooke Alderson.{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/has-ada-calhoun-just-become-the-most-important-new-voice-on-old-new-york-7832554 |work=The Village Voice |title=Has Ada Calhoun Just Become the Most Important New Voice on Old New York? |date=27 October 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016 |last1=Ruttenberg |first1=Jay }} They appear in her book St. Marks Is Dead, which she dedicated to them. She was mentioned in Christopher Isherwood’s diaries as “One of the most agreeable children imaginable, neither sulky nor sly nor pushy nor ugly, with a charming trustful smile for all of us …”{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/books/ada-calhoun-book-frank-ohara.html|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |title=A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together |date=9 June 2022 |access-date=November 12, 2024|last1=Schwartz |first1=Casey }} She has written in The New York Times Magazine about a childhood fascination with the suburbs.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/25/magazine/the-summer-i-discovered-suburbia.html|newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |title=The Summer I Discovered Suburbia |date=22 August 2013 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} As a teenager, she traveled through India and met Mother Teresa.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/opinion/rooting-for-mother-teresa.html |newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |title=Rooting for Mother Teresa |date=12 July 2013 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} She changed her name in 1998 to avoid comparison to her father.{{cite web |url=http://www.oprah.com/inspiration/ada-calhoun-self-discovery |magazine=O Magazine |title=Call Me What You Will |access-date=September 27, 2016}}

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As a reporter, she has written about imprisoned women in Alabama,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/magazine/the-criminalization-of-bad-mothers.html?pagewanted=all |newspaper=The New York Times Magazine |title=Mommy Had to Go Away for A While |date=25 April 2012 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} the rap star Bobby Shmurda,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6472767/bobby-shmurda-talks-from-jail |magazine=Billboard |title=Bobby Shmurda Speaks Out |access-date=September 27, 2016}} and the rise of DIY abortions.{{cite magazine |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/111368/the-rise-diy-abortions |magazine=New Republic |title=The Rise of DIY Abortions |date=21 December 2012 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} She has also written personal essays, including three for The New York Times's "Modern Love" column, and four for The New York Times Magazine's "Lives" column. The New York Times named her essay "The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give" its 41st-most-read story of 2015.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/09/upshot/top-stories.html|newspaper=The New York Times |title=The Top 100 New York Times Stories of 2015, by Total Time Spent |date=9 December 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Astles |first1=Ari Isaacman |last2=Bhaskar |first2=Samarth |last3=Debelius |first3=Danny }} In 2016, W.W. Norton announced that it would publish a collection of related essays in 2017, called Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give.{{cite web |url=https://adacalhoun.com/wedding-toasts-ill-ne |publisher=Ada Calhoun |title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give |access-date=September 27, 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In October 2017, Oprah.com published her article "The New Midlife Crisis."{{cite web |url=http://www.oprah.com/sp/new-midlife-crisis.html |publisher=Oprah.com |title=The New Midlife Crisis |access-date=May 31, 2018}} Chartbeat named the article the internet's 55th-most-read story of 2017.{{cite web |url=http://2017.chartbeat.com/stories |publisher=Chartbeat |title=2017 |access-date=May 31, 2018 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

St. Marks Is Dead was published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2015. Calhoun wrote an op-ed that fall that explained her anti-nostalgic feelings about cities and change:{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/opinion/sunday/my-city-was-gone-or-was-it.html|newspaper=The New York Times |title=Op-Ed: My City Was Gone. (Or Was It?) |date=31 October 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }}

{{Blockquote|When I asked nostalgic people to name the street’s golden era, they cited a range of years—often falling between 1960 and 1982, but sometimes 1945, or 1958, or 2012. A Vassar student told me that St. Marks Place died with the fairly recent closing of the Starbucks at Cooper Union. "I came back from break," he said, "and it was gone. We used to hang out there and get cups and fill them with strawberry champagne and feel glamorous. There’s no room for life to be lived there now." I began to notice a pattern: The years people said the city was at its best almost always coincided with when they themselves were at their hottest.|}}

St. Marks Is Dead was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, Amazon Book of the Month, and named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus Reviews,{{cite web |url=http://www.amny.com/secrets-of-new-york/secrets-of-st-marks-place-the-short-nyc-street-is-long-on-history-1.11600806 |publisher=AM New York |title=St. Marks Is Dead: Kirkus Review |date=28 March 2016 |access-date=September 27, 2016}} The Boston Globe,{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/12/04/the-best-books/pbHAwhg02UDEyRf95kIQiK/story.html?event=event25 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |title=The best books of 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016}} Orlando Weekly,{{cite web |url=http://photos.orlandoweekly.com/spend-your-vacation-days-reading-the-best-books-that-came-out-in-2015/?slide=18&bestbooks10 |work=Orlando Weekly |title=Spend your vacation days reading the best books that came out in 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016}} the New York Post. The Village Voice called it "The Best Nonfiction Book About New York, 2015," and said, "With St. Marks Is Dead, Ada Calhoun just became the most important new voice on old New York."{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/best-of/2015/arts-and-entertainment/best-book-about-new-york-nonfiction-7781625 |work=The Village Voice |title=St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street BEST BOOK ABOUT NEW YORK (NONFICTION) |access-date=September 27, 2016}}

The Atlantic wrote: "Timely, provocative, and stylishly written …Calhoun’s book serves as a welcome corrective to that rallying cry [that gentrification is bad], and to the tendency to romanticize New York City in the 1970s, when the city was far more riotous and permissive than it is now. … Her aplomb, in fact, is precisely what the discussion needs. Her portrait of neighborhood resilience might suggest more temperate proposals for an increasingly polarized debate."{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/ada-calhoun-review-st-marks-is-dead-new-york-gentrification/413815/ |work=The Atlantic |title=St. Marks Is Dead and the Complexity of Gentrification |date=4 November 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016}}

The New York Times Book Review said, "Calhoun, who grew up on St. Mark’s Place, is careful not to romanticize any one era of the East Village (which serves as a suitable proxy for much of New York City during the past century). St. Marks Is Dead is an ecstatic roll call."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/st-marks-is-dead-by-ada-calhoun.html |work=The New York Post |title='St. Marks Is Dead,' by Ada Calhoun |date=4 December 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016|last1=Frere-Jones |first1=Sasha }}

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give is a memoir about marriage. It was inspired by the success of her "Modern Love" column in The New York Times, "The Wedding Toast I’ll Never Give,"{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/fashion/the-wedding-toast-ill-never-give.html?hpw&rref=fashion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well |newspaper=The New York Times |title=The Wedding Toast I'll Never Give (Updated With Podcast) |date=16 July 2015 |access-date=May 1, 2017|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} which the paper named one of its most-read stories of 2015.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/09/upshot/top-stories.html|newspaper=The New York Times |title=The Top 100 New York Times Stories of 2015, by Total Time Spent |date=9 December 2015 |access-date=May 1, 2017|last1=Astles |first1=Ari Isaacman |last2=Bhaskar |first2=Samarth |last3=Debelius |first3=Danny }} The book was released on May 16, 2017, by W. W. Norton & Company.{{cite web |url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Wedding-Toasts-Ill-Never-Give/ |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give |access-date=May 1, 2017}}

In the book, Calhoun presents seven personal essays, framed as "toasts", that discuss topics such as infidelity, existential anxiety, fighting in rental cars, and the "soulmates" ideal.

Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give was praised in pre-publication reviews. Publishers Weekly called it "A humorous, realistic, and loving look at marriage....Each essay mixes components of memoir and self-help, drawing on insight from Calhoun’s own marriage as well as the wise thoughts of clergymen and lessons learned from long-married couples." Library Journal said, "Alternating between hilarious personal anecdote and sobering professional insight, this memoir conveys perhaps the simplest lesson ever given about learning to make a marriage last: just don’t get divorced. Her other great contribution to the literature on marital happiness might be her explanation of why fights in cars are the worst: you cannot storm off."{{cite web|url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wedding-toasts-ill-never-give-ada-calhoun/1124598171|title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun, Hardcover|work=Barnes & Noble|access-date= May 12, 2017}} The book received blurbs from Molly Ringwald, Susannah Cahalan, Karen Abbott, Phillip Lopate, Carlene Bauer, Davy Rothbart, Leah Carroll, Kathryn Hahn, Gretchen Rubin, Emma Straub, and Rebecca Traister.{{cite web |url=https://www.adacalhoun.com/news/amazing-blurbs-for-wedding-toasts-ill-never-give |publisher=Ada Calhoun |title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give |access-date=May 1, 2017}}

Reviews in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and elsewhere, were overall positive.{{cite web |url=https://www.adacalhoun.com/wedding-toasts-ill-never-give |publisher=Ada Calhoun |title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give |access-date=May 31, 2018}} The New York Times "Modern Love" column published the first serial excerpt on April 23, 2017, as "To Stay Married, Embrace Change."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/style/modern-love-to-stay-married-embrace-change.html|newspaper=The New York Times |title=To Stay Married, Embrace Change |date=21 April 2017 |access-date=May 1, 2017|last1=Calhoun |first1=Ada }} The book was featured on Today.{{cite web |url=https://www.today.com/video/author-reveals-secrets-of-lasting-marriage-underreacting-to-problems-976961091915|work=TODAY |title=Author Reveals Secret to Lasting Marriage: Underreacting to Problems |access-date=May 31, 2018}} In the "By the Book" column of The New York Times Book Review, Tom Hanks replied to the question "What was the last book that made you laugh?" with: "Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. I mean, underlining and yellow marker bust-out laughs."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/books/review/tom-hanks-by-the-book.html|newspaper=The New York Times Book Review |title=Tom Hanks: By the Book |date=13 October 2017 |access-date=May 31, 2018}}

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Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis is about Generation X women and their struggles, sometimes leading to a midlife crisis, including divorce, debt, unstable housing, and career development.{{cite web |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/?reviewDetail=why-we-cant-sleep-womens-new-midlife-crisis |work=Library Journal |title=Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis |access-date=December 19, 2019}} It builds upon her popular essay for O, The Oprah Magazine, "The New Midlife Crisis for Women".{{cite web |url=http://www.oprah.com/sp/new-midlife-crisis.html |work=O, The Oprah Magazine |title=The New Midlife Crisis for Women: Why (and How) It's Hitting Gen X Women|access-date=December 21, 2019}} Calhoun interviewed more than 200 women across America about their experiences and was fascinated how Gen-X women responded and coped with these struggles physically and mentally, inspiring her to understand why with research from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Harvard’s Equality of Opportunity Project.{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8021-4785-1 |work=Publishers Weekly |title=Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis |access-date=December 19, 2019}} The book was released on January 7, 2020, by Grove Atlantic.{{cite book |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/why-we-cant-sleep/ |publisher=Grove Atlantic |title=Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis |access-date=December 21, 2019}} The book spent three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2020/03/01/hardcover-nonfiction/. |work=The New York Times |title=The Many People Behind 'The Woman in Me' |date=1 March 2020 |access-date=November 7, 2023}}

Reviews were mixed. The New York Times Book Review’s Curtis Sittenfeld called Calhoun "a funny, smart, compassionate narrator…taking women’s concerns seriously" but also "wished Calhoun had included fewer women’s stories but gone into those stories in greater detail."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/review/ada-calhoun-why-we-cant-sleep-womens-new-midlife-crisis.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Gen X Women: More Opportunities, Less Satisfaction? |date=7 January 2020 |access-date=January 21, 2020|last1=Sittenfeld |first1=Curtis }} The Wall Street Journal's Emily Bobrow found many of the book's "grumbles reassuringly familiar" but called it "a little whiny" and said Calhoun is "not above cherry-picking statistics."{{cite web |last=Bobrow |first=Emily |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-cant-sleep-review-uncertain-at-a-certain-age-11578354904 |title='Why We Can't Sleep' Review: Uncertain at a Certain Age |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=January 6, 2020}}

Also a Poet is a memoir about Calhoun's relationship with her father, as well as their shared interest in poet Frank O’Hara. A Publishers Weekly profile said, “Nothing goes as planned in Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me (Grove, June), but that’s precisely why it captivates. When things became difficult while she was writing the book, Calhoun stuck to her journalistic instincts and dove deeper. What she landed on was something more distinct and remarkably richer than what she’d originally envisioned.”{{Cite web |date=2022-06-01 |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by undefined |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780802159786 |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}} In advance of publication, it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews,{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ada-calhoun/also-a-poet/ |title=ALSO A POET {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}} Booklist,{{Cite book |url=http://www.booklistonline.com/Also-a-Poet-Frank-O-Hara-My-Father-and-Me-By-Ada-Calhoun/pid=9759144 |title=Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me, by By Ada Calhoun. {{!}} Booklist Online}} and Library Journal.{{Cite web |last=Ada |first=Calhoun |title=Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me |url=https://www.libraryjournal.com/review/also-a-poet-frank-ohara-my-father-and-me-2137057 |access-date=2022-05-19 |website=Library Journal}} It was published by Grove Atlantic on June 14, 2022,{{Cite book |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/also-a-poet/ |title=Also a Poet {{!}} Grove Atlantic |language=en}} and was one of the best-reviewed books of the season, according to Literary Hub.{{cite web |last=Hub |first=Literary |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/also-a-poet-frank-ohara-my-father-and-me/ |title=Book Marks reviews of Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun |work=Literary Hub |date=June 14, 2022}} The New York Times's Alexandra Jacobs called it "a grand slam of a new memoir" and wrote that it "is packaged as a love triangle: father, daughter and O’Hara. It’s actually a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. It’s a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul."{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/books/review-also-a-poet-ada-calhoun-frank-o-hara-peter-schjeldahl.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=In 'Also a Poet,' a Search for Frank O'Hara and for Peace With Dad |date=14 June 2022 |access-date=October 4, 2022|last1=Jacobs |first1=Alexandra }}

Ada Calhoun's forthcoming first novel, Crush: A Novel, is set for release from Viking on February 25, 2025.{{Cite book |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752998/crush-by-ada-calhoun/ |title=Crush {{!}} Viking |language=en}} According to the publisher:

“Using the author’s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes. Destined to become a classic novel of marriage, and tackling the big questions being asked about partnership in postpandemic relationships, Crush is a sharp, funny, seductive, and revelatory novel about holding on to everything it’s possible to love—friends, children, parents, passion, lovers, husbands, all of the world’s good books, and most of all one’s own deep sense of purpose.”

Crush received blurbs from Molly Ringwald, Isaac Fitzgerald, Claire Dederer, Emma Straub, Shauna Niequist, Bethany Ball, and has been met with early positive reviews.

In a starred review, Booklist described Crush as an “angsty, metaphysical, literature-besotted love story” with a “brainy, funny, rigorously analytical, and determined narrator… Crush (such a charged word) interrogates all that we think we know about love and soul mates, commitment and conviction, while tracking the long struggle to fully become oneself and do right.”{{Cite web |title=Crush by undefined |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Crush-/pid=9801208 |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=www.booklist.com}}

Kirkus Reviews said, “the novel bogs down a bit once the crush has peaked,” but that it is “chock-full of great lines… Anything Ada Calhoun wants to write is well worth reading.”{{Cite web |title=CRUSH |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ada-calhoun/crush-3/#:~:text=Anything%20Ada%20Calhoun%20wants%20to,and%20quotations%20from%20other%20writers.] |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=www.kirkusreviews.com}}

Calhoun won the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal in U.S. History,{{cite web |url=http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2045 |publisher=Independent Publisher Book Awards |title=2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results |access-date=September 27, 2016}} 2015 USC-Annenberg National Health Journalism Fellowship,{{cite web |url=http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=2045 |publisher=Independent Publisher |title=Summaries of 2015 National Fellowship Projects |access-date=September 27, 2016}} 2014 Kiplinger fellowship,{{cite web |url=https://news.osu.edu/news/2014/02/11/newsitem3947/ |publisher=Ohio State University |title=Kiplinger Program names 29 Fellows for 2014 |access-date=September 27, 2016 |archive-date=October 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020112828/https://news.osu.edu/news/2014/02/11/newsitem3947/ |url-status=dead }} 2013 Council on Contemporary Families Media Award,{{cite web |url=https://contemporaryfamilies.org/media-awards-2013/ |publisher=Council of Contemporary Families |title=Council on Contemporary Families Honors Journalists for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues |access-date=September 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105195012/https://contemporaryfamilies.org/media-awards-2013/ |archive-date=January 5, 2017 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} and 2014 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship;{{cite web |url=http://aliciapatterson.org/node/2079/ |publisher=Alicia Patterson Foundation |title=49th Annual Alicia Patterson Foundation Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2014 |access-date=September 27, 2016}} one of her Patterson stories won the 2015 Croly Award.{{cite web |url=http://www.gfwc.org/what-we-do/impact-accomplishments/croly-award/ |publisher=General Federation of Women's Clubs |title=Croly Award |work=General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) |access-date=September 27, 2016}} Also a Poet was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.{{cite web |url=https://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/carnegie-medals/2023-winners |publisher=Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction |title=2023 Winners and finalists in nonfiction |access-date=November 6, 2023}}

In 2004, Calhoun married Neal Medlyn, whom she met when she was sent to interview him for an Austin Chronicle profile.{{cite web |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2000-12-29/79933/ |work=The Austin Chronicle |title=Will Anybody Ever Love Neal Medlyn? |access-date=September 27, 2016}} They have a son together.{{cite web |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/news/has-ada-calhoun-just-become-the-most-important-new-voice-on-old-new-york-7832554 |work=The Village Voice |title=Has Ada Calhoun Just Become the Most Important New Voice on Old New York? |date=27 October 2015 |access-date=September 27, 2016 |last1=Ruttenberg |first1=Jay }} In a Vogue essay in 2022 she mentioned that she had separated, “When grief invades your life, the world becomes surreal—and, as in dreams, unexpected gifts begin to drop from the sky. After my father’s death and my separation from my partner of more than 20 years, I received an invitation to a residency I’d applied for and then forgotten about: a month in a 15th-century castle outside of Edinburgh. The playful universe seemed to be offering recompense: The ground is no longer solid beneath your feet. Here’s a castle!”{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/ada-calhoun-also-a-poet-essay |work=Vogue |title=For One Writer, Creativity and Domesticity Have Always Been At Odds |date=31 May 2022 |access-date=November 7, 2023}} She revealed in a 2024 interview that she was divorced and living back in the East Village.{{cite web |url=https://walkitoff.substack.com/p/a-walk-through-the-east-village-with |work=Walk It Off |title=A Walk Through the East Village With Ada Calhoun |date=19 April 2024 |access-date=November 12, 2024}}

Calhoun is an advocate for libraries.{{cite web |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-unruly-pleasures-of-the-mid-manhattan-library |magazine=New Yorker |title=The Unruly Pleasures of the Mid-Manhattan Library |date=22 February 2016 |access-date=September 27, 2016}} She is Episcopalian.{{Cite web |last=Calhoun |first=Ada |date=2009-12-22 |title=I am a closet Christian |url=https://www.salon.com/2009/12/21/closet_christian/ |access-date=2024-08-13 |website=Salon |language=en}} She majored in Plan II Honors at the University of Texas at Austin, where for her senior thesis she translated part of the Sanskrit Atharvaveda.{{cite web |url=http://observer.com/2012/10/ada-calhoun-sells-book-st-marks-is-dead/ |work=Observer |title=Ada Calhoun Sells Book, 'St. Marks Is Dead' |date=October 2012 |access-date=September 27, 2016}}

• {{cite book | title=St. Marks Is Dead | year=2015 | isbn=978-0393240382| last1=Calhoun | first1=Ada | publisher=National Geographic Books }}
• {{cite book | title=Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give | year=2017 | isbn=978-0393254792| last1=Calhoun | first1=Ada | publisher=National Geographic Books }}
• {{cite book | title=Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis | year=2020 | isbn=978-0-8021-4785-1| last1=Calhoun | first1=Ada }}{{Cite book |url=https://groveatlantic.com/book/why-we-cant-sleep/ |title=Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis |publisher=Grove Atlantic |access-date=November 22, 2019}}
• {{cite book | title=Also a Poet | year=2022 | isbn=978-0802159786| last1=Calhoun | first1=Ada }}
• {{cite book | title=Crush: A Novel | year=2025 | isbn=978-0593832028| last1=Calhoun | first1=Ada | publisher=Penguin }}

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