brian 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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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Alex Ross
@_Sheehogue_ currently reading alex ross’s “the rest is noise” and yes very much.
Paperback, 2008
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
First Reformed
Paul Schrader
this is what you look like when you do the “joke format” that captions a news story with like “FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader, 2017)” https://t.co/VqaeyU1LtM
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Party Going
Henry Green
@greffistaf have you read henry green? if not, i’d recommend starting with another trilogy that has been bound together: living, loving, party going. loving is one of my very favorite novels
Paperback, 2017
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch
@fivepoisonskid tbh i haven’t sussed out your taste in literature but my latest attachment is to iris murdoch. “a severed head” is short and brilliant
Paperback, 1976
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
@delphicbitch the black prince, iris murdoch sonata mulattica, rita dove arabian nights (haddawy translation) harmonium, wallace stevens
Paperback, 2019
$9.50$4.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Two Part Inventions
Bach
you heard it here first. i’m going to learn all the bach two-part inventions
Paperback, 2018
$9.85$4.93 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Living
Henry Green
@greffistaf have you read henry green? if not, i’d recommend starting with another trilogy that has been bound together: living, loving, party going. loving is one of my very favorite novels
Paperback, 2017
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction
Henk J. M. Bos
hate being into the history of math because every book called like “Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes’ Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction” costs like $150 for a used copy
Paperback, 2012
$139.99$114.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Golden Bowl: Complete
Henry James
picked up near-complete sets of arden shakespeare and LOA henry james at an estate sale so it’s far and away them https://t.co/lJPP8KxDXF
Out of stock

Hollis Frampton: (Nostalgia)
Rachel Moore
@lint_ax going to twist this a little with an underappreciated work of film criticism: rachel moore’s monographs on hollis frampton’s (nostalgia)
Paperback, 2006
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book