Claire Dederer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Claire Dederer is a memoirist, essayist, and critic. "Local memoirist"--The Stranger

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers
Larry McMurtry
What’s your top Larry McMurtry novel? Mine is “All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers.” RIP
Paperback, 2018
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal
Lisa Taddeo
“If someone asked me to describe myself in a single word, depraved is the one I would use.” I'll be talking with @lisadtaddeo about her depraved & glorious new novel ANIMAL this Wednesday at 7EST/4PST. https://t.co/ZIVK2CgRcI
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Big Hurt: A Memoir
Erika Schickel
Happy pub day to @ErikaSchickel, whose memoir The Big Hurt is a savage hurtling fireball. If you're a fan of Love & Trouble and are interested in how girls survived (and didn't) the predatory era of the 1970s and 80s, you will be bowled over by this book https://www.powells.com/book/-9780306925054
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
Casey Parks
Please join me for a virtual discussion with Casey Parks about her incredible memoir Diary of a Misfit tonight at 7pm EST. If you're interested in blending reportage and memoir, and/or interested in untold queer histories, this will be a fantastic discussion. Link below! https://t.co/WiRIzE9DlO
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Geoff Dyer
@lillydancyger Geoff Dyer's book ZONA--about Tarkovsky's film Stalker
Paperback, 2012
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey
Florence Williams
As someone with a little experience in the heartbreak field myself, I loved this book. Later today (2/7) I get to talk with my friend Florence Williams about HEARTBREAK, which Publisher's Weekly calls "show-stopping." Harvard Book Store, 7pm EST / 4pm PST. Link below. https://t.co/f7wxDnUylZ
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
2) 2/1/22, @BooksandBooks: in convo with Julia May Jonas--her fantastic, wild debut novel Vladimir is going to be the book everyone will be reading and talking about in February, so get ready.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nursery
Szilvia Molnar
“The Nursery” concerns itself with something every new mother goes through… she’s gone from being a (relatively) free entity roaming the earth to a bleeding, exhausted body that exists mostly to nurture her baby. Molnar pushes this transformation into the stuff of quiet horror.
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Persuasion
J. Austen
A month after my father's death, I'm reading his copy of Persuasion, which he bought and read because he wanted to understand my love of Austen. 💔💔
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The Second Body
Daisy Hildyard
@charlottemf406 I love Daisy Hildyard's work, which is not read enough in the US. The Second Body--amazing!
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book