Chuck Wendig Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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There was no one like Cormac McCarthy, and there will be none like him to come. A singular architect of prose and story. I like to go back and re-read THE ROAD and it still fucks me up.

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THE FERVOR is an astonishingly good horror novel and you need to read it. https://twitter.com/almakatsu/status/1515313025993121792

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My kiddo read both CAMP SCARE and THIS APPEARING HOUSE this last week (hell, one day he raced through 150 pages of Camp Scare) and loved the hell out of them, so this should be a good event, and go get some cool MG books, willya? https://t.co/uH9BOjetGv

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Kiddo stayed up late to finish reading @Lora013’s THE CLACKITY and his review at like, 10:20PM was “omg it’s the best book and it’s so scary,” which, while perhaps unsophisticated, is a pretty great review for a ten year old. HORROR FOR KIDS WOOOOOOO https://t.co/g9g5PmAcWd

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Well, hot damn. THE BOOK OF ACCIDENTS (out in three weeks pssst) is an Indie Next pick for August! Alongside @maggiesmithpoet’s GOLDENROD which I also just got today? AND I got my author copies?! Woo! I’m not mad at any of this. HAIL ERIS https://t.co/KqtTgp18Qg

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I’m reading Ed Yong’s newest, “An Immense World.” I’m a huge fan of his pandemic writing (in The Atlantic) and of his book about the human microbiome, “I Contain Multitudes.” He makes science writing fun to read.

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Wonderful horror for middle-grade readers (and, if I'm being honest, adults, too). My kid adored this, and still talks about it. (He also recently loved @kierstenwhite's WRETCHED WATERPARK and @AllyMalinenko's GHOST GIRL, if you dig his recs.) https://twitter.com/Lora013/status/1541751935530807296

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Listen I have been lax in that I haven’t read two of these but lemme tell you ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS was easily one my my favoritest things I’ve read in recent memory. It should get awards so please give it awards. https://twitter.com/premeesaurus/status/1487100876409868294

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And preorder his book too — THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME. https://twitter.com/gabino_iglesias/status/1516765935868256266

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(Ooh speaking of books I read recently -- just finished MALICE HOUSE by Megan Shepherd, which has one of those spiraling occulty ghosty house mysteries that just keeps drawing you deeper, good stuff there too.)