Andy Miller Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Andy Miller on XI like books. Wrote 'The Year of Reading Dangerously'. Co-host @BacklistedPod. An Englishman abroad.

The Soul of Man
Oscar WildeI’m looking forward to talking to @TomCrewe1 later about his terrific debut novel The New Life at @FavershamLit, 12.30pm. There will also be some discussion of Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism. https://t.co/zTBt81SGAH https://t.co/qeaNHtjtAH
Hardcover, 2022
$40.01Member price:$36.01 + Free shipping10% off
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell HammettNew @BacklistedPod! The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, with expert guidance from @MarkBillingham plus @johnmitchinson @birchos and me. Much discussion of how a book can be so famous and influential yet weirdly underrated at the same time. https://t.co/fgAEZLh6CL
Paperback, 1989
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Inheritors
William GoldingBooks read (or reread) in May 2019. My favourites were 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere and The Inheritors by William Golding. 1/6 https://t.co/we7td7E0aO
Paperback, 2007
$26.95Member price:$24.25 + Free shipping10% off
New Grub Street
George GissingI'm reading and greatly enjoying The Odd Women by George Gissing. (I haven't finished it yet so no plot spoilers please.) If you are in a position to do so, please recommend me another novel by Gissing which is neither New Grub Street nor The Whirlpool. Thank you.
Paperback, 2024
$22.99Member price:$20.69 + Free shipping10% off
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyYou may not be aware but Sally Rooney has a new novel out. (Apologies if you knew about it already!) Anyway I’ve started reading Beautiful World Where Are You, which is its title of the novel, and so far I’m really enjoying it.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ballet Shoes
Noel StreatfeildAnd here are the books we’re unwrapping on this Christmas @BacklistedPod: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild; The Giant Under the Snow by John Gordon; The Death of Grass by John Christopher. 🎄📚💀 https://t.co/BXLlu9Dm0Z https://t.co/Q1QGNlOHwg
Paperback, 1993
$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar WildeI’m looking forward to talking to @TomCrewe1 later about his terrific debut novel The New Life at @FavershamLit, 12.30pm. There will also be some discussion of Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism. https://t.co/zTBt81SGAH https://t.co/qeaNHtjtAH
Paperback, 2016
$5.38Member price:$2.69 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Awakening
Kate ChopinNew @BacklistedPod! Books by Kate Chopin, Louise Willder, Paul Thompson @jakethackrayfan and John Watterson AKA Fake Thackray, with @rachael_kerr Timothy O’Grady @johnmitchinson @birchos and me. https://t.co/kIwoR9atWu
Paperback, Mass Market, 2003
$5.99Member price:$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner@JadAdamsAuthor Oh and specifically The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
Paperback, 2019
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women Talking
Miriam ToewsPSA: Women Talking is the film adaptation of Miriam Toews's novel of the same title. https://t.co/WkDrjoFbxI
Paperback, 2020
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book