Books on the Subway 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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Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
Kayleen Schaefer
For February #OffTheRailsBookClub we read, Text Me When You Get Home, a book all about female friendship, how it's evolved & what it has to offer us. We were lucky enough to interview the author @kayleener last week. Listen here: https://t.co/bLjmCciDrt https://t.co/j8zWAXy1TE
Paperback, 2019
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
Hurray! It’s Friday & another book drop near you! This book will take you through Patti Smith’s journey during the year of the Monkey. She’ll take us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor. Find it for your weekend read https://t.co/uCYFjLfUUU
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down. A classic @Lisa_See story—one of women’s friendships & the larger forces that shape them—The Island of Sea Women introduces readers to the fierce & unforgettable female divers of Jeju Island. @scribnerbooks https://t.co/mxkGY9ZjrW
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Come Home With Us
Rob Matthews
COME WITH US to the subway today to find one of @vogue’s “Books You Won’t Want to Miss This Fall" - Come With Me by #HelenSchulman is searing, entertaining, and unexpected—a dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life. https://t.co/MWb5dD16ff
Paperback, 2016
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Queenie
Candice Carty-Williams
We’ve been busy running around town with this beauty all day. Kept forgetting to take photos since we were so wrapped up in reading the book ourselves. We chose @CandiceC_W’s debut novel, #Queenie 👑 for our April #offtherailsbookclub & honestly haven’t been able to put it down! https://t.co/DNh7UpKdlx
Paperback, 2019
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Bernardine Evaristo
We launched a Facebook Group!! It's a private group where we discuss our monthly #OffTheRailsBookClub picks. Head over to the group now and you can enter our competition to WIN A FREE COPY of January's pick. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo. https://t.co/VjPMxkcxEx https://t.co/pGSj0cc6aM
Paperback, 2019
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Body Lies
Jo Baker
The books lie on the subway today (as always)! We've got a layered and thrilling suspense novel for you. It grapples with how to live as a woman in the modern world - or in the pages of a book. Find #Thebodylies from @JoBakerWriter #booksonthesubway https://t.co/rKWuOrHxW6
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saturday's Child: A Daughter's Memoir
Deborah Burns
Back to the grind & already missing the sun. So, we’re trying to get in sync with our book title & channel the weekend! Saturday’s Child is the story of @deborah_l_burns’ eccentric upbringing & her quest in midlife, after her parents’ death, to uncover the truth about her mother. https://t.co/Gpef4F7k2k
Paperback, 2019
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Woman Is No Man
Etaf Rum
Today on the podcast we speak with @EtafRum about her debut novel #AWomanIsNoMan. This is a MUST-READ book, MUST-LISTEN episode. Check it out on iTunes, Spotify and all other podcast platforms. Or on our site: https://t.co/b0Ie5a6lYa @harperbooks https://t.co/TYk7udymHg
Paperback, 2020
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Let Me Hear a Rhyme
Tiffany D. Jackson
Today we've teamed up with @epicreads & author Tiffany D. Jackson (@WriteinBK) to share her novel Let Me Hear A Rhyme, in which she tells the story of 3 Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. #booksonthesubway https://t.co/Y305hoX5oq
Paperback, 2020
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book