Claire Jarvis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Claire Jarvis on X
*bleak*
Desperate Remedies
Thomas HardyClaire Jarvis@SethRudy Sarah Waters The Little Stranger gets at Victorian novel structure while pulling on WWI and WWII gothic tropes. Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies is a literal cliff-hanger and a shocking mash of realism + gothic. You have to do The Red Shoes for one of the films, dang!
Paperback, 2024
$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Prep
Curtis SittenfeldClaire Jarvis@inlandemperor Did you ever read Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep? I love that book's investigation of American wealth!
Paperback, 2005
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Impersonality: Seven Essays
Sharon CameronClaire Jarvis@becimay Have you read Sharon Cameron's book on impersonality? I found it so interesting!
Paperback, 2007
$40.00Member price:$40.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Desperate Remedies
Hardy ThomasClaire Jarvis@SethRudy Sarah Waters The Little Stranger gets at Victorian novel structure while pulling on WWI and WWII gothic tropes. Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies is a literal cliff-hanger and a shocking mash of realism + gothic. You have to do The Red Shoes for one of the films, dang!
Paperback, 2017
$16.05Member price:$8.02 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swing Time
Zadie SmithClaire Jarvis@cwellmon More contemporary realist writers to look through: Claire Messud, Tessa Hadley, Sally Rooney (yes, yes). The best young woman book I have read in years was Zadie Smith's Swing Time, which captures anxiety and social stress perfectly.
Paperback, 2017
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lorenzo in Taos: D. H. Lawrence and Mabel Dodge Luhan
Mabel Dodge LuhanClaire Jarvis@amandafortini @kspehar @walterkirn Has he read the Mabel Dodge Luhan book about when DHL came to visit (Lorenzo in Taos)? It's so so good. And the Cusk novel that riffs on that!
Paperback, 2007
$32.95Member price:$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886). By: Thomas Hardy: Novel
Thomas HardyClaire Jarvis@SethRudy Sarah Waters The Little Stranger gets at Victorian novel structure while pulling on WWI and WWII gothic tropes. Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies is a literal cliff-hanger and a shocking mash of realism + gothic. You have to do The Red Shoes for one of the films, dang!
Paperback, 2017
$12.92Member price:$6.46 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frost: Poems: Edited by John Hollander
Robert FrostClaire JarvisI have been reading Robert Frost to my children at night, and those poems 1) are so great to read aloud and 2) are melatonin for English children.
Hardcover, 1997
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Baking at the 20th Century Cafe: Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake
Michelle PolzineClaire Jarvis@johannawinant @scriblerian Big plug for my beautiful friend Michelle Polzine's Baking at the 20th Century Cafe, which is GLORIOUS and full of sneaky tips and suggestions. https://t.co/pYCIFRDAgD
Hardcover, 2020
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Some Tame Gazelle
Barbara PymClaire Jarvis@tomsojka Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers. And Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara Pym.
Paperback, 2013
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book