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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

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Book Cover for: The Street, Ann Petry

The Street

Ann Petry
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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

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Affinities

Brian Dillon
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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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Book Cover for: White on White, Aysegül Savas

White on White

Aysegül Savas
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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
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Book Cover for: Beyond the Horizon, the Straw, and Before Breakfast: Plays, Eugene O'Neill

Beyond the Horizon, the Straw, and Before Breakfast: Plays

Eugene O'Neill
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Make a matching set of Eugene O'Neill plays, you cowards 🗣

Paperback, 2024

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Awakening: And Other Stories, Kate Chopin

The Awakening: And Other Stories

Kate Chopin
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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
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Book Cover for: The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
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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
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Book Cover for: Tom Lake, Ann Patchett

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett
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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
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Book Cover for: All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art, Orlando Whitfield

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

Orlando Whitfield
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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
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Book Cover for: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
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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
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Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
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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
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