Amal El-Mohtar Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Amal El-Mohtar is a book critic and author. Wrote half of Time War. Oracle of Buses. Hugo, Nebula, Locus winner. @nytimesbooks columnist. Leaps wide oceans with irregular bounds. She/Her. Agent: @dongwon

Elatsoe
Darcie Little Badger
@blahdiem @wirewalking @rrschaeffer I really loved ELATSOE by Darcie Little Badger, & reviewed it here if you're interested https://t.co/ypubvdhm1f
Paperback, 2023
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
leaves
Hamida Dida
David Naiman reading a poem by Ursula K Le Guin (“Leaves”) while accepting Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction. https://t.co/r7CoaPOREt
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A Fractured Infinity
Nathan Tavares
I have a new Otherworldly column up at @nytimesbooks! Looking at N. K. Jemisin's THE WORLD WE MAKE, H. A. Clarke's THE SCRATCH DAUGHTERS, Nathan Tavares' A FRACTURED INFINITY, & Isaac Fellman's THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI. Gift link below. https://t.co/jnEuA57t6M
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tell Me an Ending
Jo Harkin
New column at @nytimesbooks today! Covering ALL THE HORSES OF ICELAND by Sarah Tolmie, TELL ME AN ENDING by Jo Harkin, THE IMPOSSIBLE US by Sarah Lotz. I absolutely loved all of them. https://t.co/1e4cjWLtdv
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love
Angela Carter
@hawkwing_lb @ArkadyMartine Have you read Kelly Link's introduction to Angela Carter's THE BLOODY CHAMBER? I just especially love an essay that makes feel like I'm getting to know not just a text, but a moment in time, a topography between artists
Paperback, 1988
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
@lindaholmes I really loved ONE LAST STOP by Casey McQuiston & THE IMPOSSIBLE US by Sarah Lotz
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Light from Uncommon Stars
Ryka Aoki
New column up at @nytimesbooks today (in print Oct. 10), covering THE BODY SCOUT by Lincoln Michel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS by Ryka Aoki, & NO GODS, NO MONSTERS by Cadwell Turnbull. Enjoy! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review/lincoln-michel-ryka-aoki-cadwell-turnbull.html
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jonathan Strange & MR Norrell
Susanna Clarke
@cxorlando Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirlees, Tithe by Holly Black, In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck (sort of), Tam Lin by Pamela Dean, Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saint Death's Daughter: 2023 World Fantasy Award Winner!
C. S. E. Cooney
"inimitable and breathtaking" "There’s only so much I can say about this feast of a book. The rest must be experienced" @McFlyCahill90 gets it. @csecooney's SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER is all this & more. https://www.tor.com/2022/04/26/book-reviews-saint-deaths-daughter-by-c-s-e-cooney/
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The World We Make
N. K. Jemisin
I have a new Otherworldly column up at @nytimesbooks! Looking at N. K. Jemisin's THE WORLD WE MAKE, H. A. Clarke's THE SCRATCH DAUGHTERS, Nathan Tavares' A FRACTURED INFINITY, & Isaac Fellman's THE TWO DOCTORS GORSKI. Gift link below. https://t.co/jnEuA57t6M
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book