Cecilia Qui Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Cecilia Qui on XPhilologist. I greatly appreciate arts in general, languages in particular. Truth, landscape, travel, my favourite words. I hate #quotes. In search of balance.

Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.” Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes. 🎨Fritz Berthold-Neuhaus https://t.co/OujQqfTZbY
Hardcover, 2024
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. 🎨Catherine Nolin, Family Portrait https://t.co/ZuT0FjIvy3
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. ✍️Alan Parry https://t.co/v2tOZSupIf
Paperback, 2010
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Walden
Henry David Thoreau“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Ashford Castle, County Mayo, Ireland 🇮🇪 📷Kuba Cieloch https://t.co/VF05Jh2kHq
Hardcover, 2016
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison“You are your best thing.” Beloved by Toni Morrison. 📷Christian Schloe https://t.co/yalp1NRb5u
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray. ✍️Kirsi Neuvonen https://t.co/m1dlkyNXc9
Paperback, 2003
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. Mount Taranaki, New Zealand🇳🇿 📷Alex Stead https://t.co/RgiLNblFCq
Hardcover, 2018
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky“But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.” Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 📷Philippe Charles Jacquet https://t.co/HBuMxzdexD
Paperback, 1999
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. 📷Aitor Lara https://t.co/yaLReNYkGX
Paperback, 2004
$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. 🎨Olga Wisinger-Florian https://t.co/Qd30jhDHbg
Paperback, 2010
$11.99Member price:$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book