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BDM 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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B. D. McClay is an essayist and a critic. essayist & critic / my dog's name is boswell / trying to stay offline-ish for a bit https://t.co/4NgqVVORYq

23 books
Book Cover for: Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel

Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel
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hilary mantel's beyond black / every day is mother's day both sort of do this, but it's more like "the real psychic people think is fake"

Paperback, 2006

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt

Lightning Rods

Helen DeWitt
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@BenjaminDueholm @phil_christman yeah i think there are some people for whom sex in isolation provides benefits but if you imagine something like the helen dewitt lightning rods scenario where you go have sex with anonymous bottom halves i think it wouldn't really address feelings of loneliness or worthlessness

Paperback, 2012

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Attic

Katherine Dunn
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killed many bugs this morning. most with the house of god, some with katherine dunn's novel attic, one with a guide to christian ethics. kind of want to make the last one the official bug killing book but it is not actually mine

Paperback, 2017

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Call Us What We Carry: Poems, Amanda Gorman

Call Us What We Carry: Poems

Amanda Gorman
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amanda gorman's apparent and touching sincerity of commitment to poetry being important weighed against the quality of her actual poems… that's the human condition https://t.co/KZjdUxDfJP https://t.co/noOBd6BWW3

Hardcover, 2021

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Jenny Odell
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whenever i see anything by jenny odell my first thought is: why would i want this person to teach me how to do nothing… i do so much more nothing than she does https://t.co/uBxH8VkAh8

Hardcover, 2019

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
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for @NewYorker I reviewed Eleanor Catton's new novel, Birnam Wood: https://t.co/p9gv3Siqq0

Paperback, 2024

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence, Lynne Tillman

Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman
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@TheYungPrtndr i really had a great experience with almost everybody this year and then this morning i read lynne tillman's mothercare and i was like "ah, right,,,"

Hardcover, 2022

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Every Day Is Mother's Day, Hilary Mantel

Every Day Is Mother's Day

Hilary Mantel
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hilary mantel's beyond black / every day is mother's day both sort of do this, but it's more like "the real psychic people think is fake"

Paperback, 2010

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy
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@_veery @BrandyLJensen when your husband leo tolstoy has you copy out nine separate drafts of anna karenina <<<<<<

Paperback, 2016

$11.60$5.80 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Bell, Iris Murdoch

The Bell

Iris Murdoch
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rereading Iris Murdoch's The Bell because some friends are reading it, and while it was the first Murdoch novel I ever read I didn't really remember it that well. anyway it's good. young up and comer Iris Murdoch one to watch etc

Paperback, 2001

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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