DavidDoesWords Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas
Born #onthisday1986 Sarah J. Maas American #fantasy #author Best known for her scintillating debut 7 book Throne of Glass series (2012-2018) & 5 book A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015-2021) Classical music & movie scores is her inspiration of writing + thrill of discovery https://t.co/WNpi7KrGzL
Paperback, 2020
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Born #onthisday1820 Anna Sewell English #author Best known for best-selling #childrenlit #novel Black Beauty (1877) Considered one of the top ten best selling novels for children Died five months afterBlack Beauty's publication long enough to see only novel become a major success https://t.co/b4L3gWKU7b
Paperback, 2008
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Published #onthisday1939 And Then There Were None world's best-selling #mystery #novel & sixth best-selling books of all time by English #author Agatha Christie described by her as most difficult book to write 1st published in UK as Ten Little Niggers sold 100+ million copies https://t.co/wj7B9PqspV
Paperback, Mass Market, 2011
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie
Published #onthisday1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1st #detective #mystery #novel by British #writer Agatha Christie Introduced iconic characters Hercule Poirot Arthur Hastings & Inspector Japp & well received by reviewers lauded its clever plot & nuances of time & place https://t.co/ognkt7W26c
Hardcover, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dune
Frank Herbert
Published #onthisday1965 Dune #sciencefiction #novel & 1st installment in Dune saga by American #author Frank Herbert Tied for Hugo Award (1966) Won inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel World’s best-selling science fiction novel in 2003 Wrote 5 sequels https://t.co/pvaIzkC5oj
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Riders of the Purple Sage
Zane Grey
Born #onthisday1872 Zane Grey American #novelist Best known for popular #Western #adventure #novels Idealized American frontier best-selling Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) helped shape formula of popular Western genre & called "the most popular western novel of all time" https://t.co/BMW56MOXra
Paperback, 1990
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Published #onthisday1884 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a #novel & sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by #author Mark Twain Named among Great American Novels the work is among the first major works in American Literature to be written in vernacular English … https://t.co/1sxhE0mRvH
Paperback, 2014
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Born #onthisday1973 Anthony Doerr American #novelist & #shortstoreywriter #novel All the Light We Cannot See (2014) was New York Times best-seller & won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1st book was a #shortstorycollection The Shell Collector (2002) Latest Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021) https://t.co/u5yWdO9uFA
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Published #onthisday1960 To Kill a Mockingbird #novel by Harper Lee Instantly successful widely read in U.S. high schools become classic of modern American literature winning Pulitzer Prize Renowned for its warmth & humour deals with serious issues of racial inequality & rape https://t.co/JUHSxlimwW
Paperback, 2005
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born #onthisday1840 Nathaniel Hawthorne American #novelist dark #Romance #author of the Romantic movement inc House of 7 Gables The Scarlet Letter & #shortstoreywriter Works often focus on history morality & religion & contain moral metaphors inspired by an anti-Puritan sentiment https://t.co/ij0x5j0HjT
Paperback, 2015
$8.00$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book