Brandon 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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Brandon Taylor is an author. REAL LIFE: a novel (2020) FILTHY ANIMALS: stories (June 2021) THE LATE AMERICANS: a novel (2023) newsletter: sweater weather, https://t.co/6PnsSjw3ZO

The Street
Ann Petry
Also I know I always say her, but Ann Petry's The Street is like. Also an incredible novel that is at once Woolfian and Tolstoyan and utterly American in its idiom and it is a perfect book and I think of it OFTEN.
Paperback, 2020
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Affinities
Brian Dillon
Excuse me, how do I get a copy of Brian Dillon's Affinities. I need it. For reasons. The reasons are that I want to read it. A lot. Lol.
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White on White
Aysegül Savas
Things are getting VERY Aysegül Savas-y/Katie Kitamura-y in this draft. White on White/ Intimacies Hive, let's GOOOOO. https://t.co/OT59lkMROp
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beyond the Horizon, the Straw, and Before Breakfast: Plays
Eugene O'Neill
Make a matching set of Eugene O'Neill plays, you cowards 🗣
Paperback, 2024
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin
Two separate things I have woken up in the middle of the night to check for my presentation of my novel in progress today: 1. The critical reputation of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening in the 1960s, lol. 2. The status of the disposable coffee cup in 1967, lol.
Paperback, 2008
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
An honor to have gotten to write the foreword to one of my favorite novels for @penguinclassics. In addition, this special edition has James’s brilliant essay on the writing of fiction. 🥹 so happy
Paperback, 2014
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett’s new novel so far is…precisely the book I hoped it would be. Shades of Commonwealth. She’s so back.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
Orlando Whitfield
My very very very favorite book this year was ALL THAT GLITTERS by Orlando Whitfield. That book is astonishing. Brilliant. Funny. Deeply felt. Everyone should go read it immediately.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Am I really at an age where Mansfield Park goes from being Jane Austen’s annoying novel to one I really like? Much to consider.
Hardcover, 2019
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
I found the novel’s defensiveness about the moral dubiousness of its aesthetic project kind of charming, but also frustrating. Yet, for all that, it is Rooney’s best novel yet. Funny and smart, full of sex and love and people doing their best to connect.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book