Ben O'Connell 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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Dad, husband, reader, music geek, movie nerd, Montanan, NE DC Canine Knucklehead Ward co-founder, @cspan director of editorial operations
The Iron Heel
Jack LondonBen O'ConnellThe latest @cspan Booknotes+ goes deep into to one of my longtime interests, the history of the Wobblies. Ahmed White discusses Jack London, the IWW’s distinct form of unionism, Frank Little’s murder and much more from his book “Under the Iron Heel.” https://t.co/TJ7X31tIpr
Paperback, 2006
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Billy Summers
Stephen KingBen O'ConnellStephen King’s latest, Billy Summers, has a few tangents and coincidences that could veer into contrivance territory in less capable hands. Only the fictional memoir embedded within the novel fell flat for me—and even it serves a purpose in the end. It’s a decent thriller.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2023
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The Wind Began to Howl
Laird BarronBen O'ConnellI’ve been looking forward to the arrival of Laird Barron’s The Wind Began to Howl. And I’m super thrilled for a signed copy. https://t.co/QDp32UIgcJ
Paperback, 2023
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Ghost Wall
Sarah MossBen O'ConnellSarah Moss’s brilliant novella Ghost Wall reminded me of a Brexit-era Mosquito Coast or Poisonwood Bible. (Except that I remember intensely disliking the latter.) https://t.co/WJjtwkjyF7
Paperback, 2019
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Death at Greenway
Lori Rader-DayBen O'ConnellLori Rader-Day’s Death at Greenway is an homage to Golden Age mysteries and itself a sophisticated crime novel. Two nurses hired to care for children evacuated to Agatha Christie’s estate during WWII become entangled in a mystery when a body washes ashore. https://t.co/yuFVTYaBMk
Paperback, 2021
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American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC
Shahan MuftiBen O'ConnellA colleague recently put the prologue of Shahan Mufti’s American Caliph on my desk and said, “You have to read this.” Over the next ten pages, men took hostages around DC, shot future mayor Marion Barry, and demanded the sinking of a Hollywood epic. I am all in. https://t.co/UhUBV86Ld0
Hardcover, 2022
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The Bangalore Detectives Club
Harini NagendraBen O'ConnellI picked The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra from the recommendations below. Very enjoyable cozy set in 1920s Bangalore. I loved the husband-wife team at the heart of the novel: an educated woman and a progressive-minded doctor newly wed in an arranged marriage. https://t.co/EA94n5IrrK https://t.co/dYzzy3CDi4
Paperback, 2023
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I Served the King of England
Bohumil HrabalBen O'ConnellBohumil Hrabal’s I Served the King of England has been on my to-read list for years, so, of course, I’m reading Too Loud a Solitude. The to-read list must never shrink. https://t.co/HmW3wRRQ4R
Paperback, 2007
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyBen O'Connell.@faceyouhate explores the ambiguities and seeming contradictions within Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, for @BulwarkOnline and finds "the American literary event of the last decade." https://t.co/o9a7MipJte
Paperback, 2023
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The Jolly Corner
Henry JamesBen O'Connell@BramPresser I’d be curious what you think. Also, Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner,” but I’m not sure if longer short stories quite fit what you’re looking for.
Paperback, 2023
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