Claude Peck 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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Claude Peck is a book and arts critic. Ex-arts and news editor, Star Tribune. Co-writer of Withering Glance. Book reviewer.

The Magician
Colm Toibin
My cover review of Colm Toibin's "The Magician" in the Gay & Lesbian Review. (You may encounter a paywall.) @scribnerbooks @colmtoibin #thomasmann https://bit.ly/3ojPqFk https://t.co/itoDTA6aMV
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Learned by Heart
Emma Donoghue
Donoghue…is superb at capturing the unmediated hearts of love-drenched adolescents: raw, vulnerable, disorienting, almost painfully excitable.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swim Home to the Vanished
Brendan Shay Basham
Brendan Shay Basham's debut novel is an incantatory trip through place and time, fueled by grief and animated by magic. Sometimes as intense and disorienting as a virtual reality excursion or a fever dream…"Swim Home to the Vanished" preserves some memorable stories, memorably.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr
"The Prophets" by Robert Jones, Jr. is a Natl. Book Award finalist in fiction. Here's my review of it: http://strib.mn/2Mnjz7b @nationalbook @SonofBaldwin @penguinrandom https://t.co/vsUlBaRFFk
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memorial Days: A Memoir
Geraldine Brooks
Masterfully reveals Brooks as both reporter and fiction writer, marshaling facts and details while probing the ever-motivating miracles of love and loss.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book