Dave Appleby 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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Father and serial stepfather. Author of 'Bally and Bro', 'Motherdarling' and 'The Kids of God' ("speculative fiction at its best"). Available on Amazon.

Dune
Frank Herbert
"She had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death - the drive to seek immortality through progeny." https://bit.ly/3Gpp4ZF
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
"Everyone kept talking about me as if I were some kind of newly created thing." https://t.co/TtO99dOKJ5
Paperback, 2005
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
"Exile was the punishment that God meted out to Adam in the very first chapter of the human comedy, and that He meted out to Cain a few pages later." https://t.co/WMI9g7nNCK
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silas Marner
George Eliot
“It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.” https://t.co/1OgB7iCRM6
Paperback, Mass Market, 2007
$4.95$2.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Book 1
Frank Herbert
"She had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death - the drive to seek immortality through progeny." https://bit.ly/3Gpp4ZF
Hardcover, 2020
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Reading List
Sara Nisha Adams
"Mukesh nodded meaning ‘absolutely not’." https://t.co/iKARZjcCQB
Paperback, 2022
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
“And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.” https://t.co/K257gm1vQc
Paperback, 1990
$5.00$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
"History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair." https://t.co/WMI9g7nNCK
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired." https://t.co/isrI12H0Zg
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Midnight Library: A GMA Book Club Pick
Matt Haig
"I'm not useful to anyone. I was bad at work. I have disappointed everyone. I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest." https://bit.ly/3EuwfPd
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book