Chris Hewitt 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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Cell
Stephen King
Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2022
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
Leslie Jamison
So compassionate and insightful…interests you in topics you may not care about and shows you new ways to view topics you care about… Jamison is hilarious, with a dry and self-deprecating wit in which the jokes are so graceful and surprising that you may need to read them twice
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead
Neil Gaiman
Imagine if the anti-vaxxer conspiracy bells had been right about that signal, and it was some kind of Stephen King's Cell thing that turns the vaccinated into drooling zombies. I'd absolutely take that over living in a world where Right Said Fred were part of any new government.
Paperback, 2009
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Funny Story
Emily Henry
it's a breeze to read, with nuanced characterizations, brisk setpieces, and Henry's deft wit… Like a lot of romcoms, "Funny Story" insists that romance is rarely tidy or packaged the way we expect it to be (that's where the "com" comes in, right?).
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
Anna Funder
Almost impossible to characterize Anna Funder's book about Eileen Orwell... It can't have been easy to write a quasi-biography of someone who was Wited Out of the historical record, but Funder has the receipts, and she shows them.
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Close to Death
Anthony Horowitz
Horowitz is stronger on plot than characterization…but that turns out to be enough in "Close to Death." If "witty," "page-turning" and "clever" sound like something you'd like to see in a mystery, it might be the one for you.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson
Just watched the Asteroid City trailer. Feel a bit sorry for Wes Anderson. By this point you'd think he could attract some actual movie stars to work with, instead of a bunch of no-name nobodies.
Hardcover, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Fish Called Wanda: The Screenplay
John Cleese
@rufusjones1 Reminds me of one of my favourite gags in A Fish Called Wanda, where Tom Georgeson is talking to John Cleese in his prison cell and says, ‘tell those pigs to fuck off’. Cleese calmly turns around and says, ‘fuck off, pigs.’
Paperback, 2000
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reacher: Killing Floor (Movie Tie-In)
Lee Child
I love it. We have two great Reacher adaptations — this movie, and the Amazon show, which isn’t perfect but has Alan Ritchson, who basically tore his way into the real world from a pile of paper sitting on Lee Child’s desk. I’ll take that. https://t.co/91ojU6WoXK
Paperback, Mass Market, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grief Is for People
Sloane Crosley
Hers is not a self-help book, by any means, but Crosley's three-steps-forward/two-steps-back journey to a kind of peace could be useful for others who, like her, feel broken and confused.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book