Amber Sparks 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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Amber Sparks is an author and book critic. Your garbage mom; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE ‘25; rep’d by @KentDWolf; I just want you to be happy, honey, ON AUGUST HIATUS

The Shortest Day
Susan Cooper
Tonight we’re reading Susan Cooper’s and Carson Ellis’s The Shortest Day https://t.co/lrouCY3rH9
Hardcover, 2019
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Hans Andersen's Christmas tales: Fairy Tales: The Snow Queen; The Fir-Tree; The Snow Man; The Little Match Girl
Hans Andersen
@JessicaGilkison Sure! I’d start at the holy grail, a solid collection of the Grimms. Also Hans Christian Andersen. There are some really beautiful collection that feature Holden Age illustration. Calvino did a great Italian Fairy Tales collection - Pantheon has a great African fairy tales
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Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir
Marina Warner
@legroff Happy birthday, Lauren! If you haven’t read Marina Warner’s Esmond and Ilia yet, I think you would love it.
Paperback, 2022
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Stoner
John Williams
I agree completely - spring has a bitter, hopeful clarity that’s destined to smudge and fade into the haze of summer - a temporary sharpness that’s perfect for this marvelous book.
Paperback, 2006
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How to Read Now: Essays
Elaine Castillo
HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo is brilliant, and I keep thinking about this - The Secret Garden, for example, means much to me, but rereading it, how can I not read it now with the classism and colonialism and imperialism in mind? To ignore it would be such a shallow reading. https://t.co/NDGIcYBBh8
Hardcover, 2022
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The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
This book seriously saved my LIFE in 2020
Paperback, 2019
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Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
The kid is reading Harriet the Spy, and I am once again reminded of my hero and role model, Mrs Plumber https://t.co/5gx3bQpZPe
Paperback, 2001
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The Body Scout
Lincoln Michel
Loved this book - so weird and good, like all of Lincoln’s writing! Get it for summer reading (not kidding, it would be an excellent beach read)
Paperback, 2022
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The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale
@j_zimms We loved the Princess in Black books! Awesome to know Shannon Hale is so cool.
Paperback, 2015
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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Okay so last year, Wintering by Katherine May got me through the darkest days of winter. Any suggestions for this year?
Hardcover, 2020
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