delia Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
delia on XDelia Cai is a culture journalist. writer @vanityfair / author of CENTRAL PLACES 🌾 / deez links 4 life

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
Mia Mercadoquality meeting of Midwest Energies here in our Q&A with @miamarket about her new book SHE'S NICE THOUGH https://t.co/qXW4pe81QD
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh Choucannot wait to see my two brilliant friends @elainehsiehchou and @QianJulieWang in conversation next week!! if you haven't read either of their books yet you are a CHUMP https://t.co/KYFhopAzN3
Out of stock

Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hua HsuI'm always obsessed with how tightly engineered Hsu's writing is—as elegant and seamless as the rivets of a submarine—and it's nothing short of delightful to see his prose deployed in such a personal investigation on the pains of being pure at heart.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--And What They Mean for America's Future
Jean M. TwengeAccording to Dr. Twenge, the root cause of all these shifts in our culture comes down not to definitive major events (like wars or pandemics), but one unstoppable force: technology.
Out of stock

Central Places
Delia Caistranded in Illinois for two extra days .... central places part II coming soon.....
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aesthetica
Allie Rowbottomtalked with @allierowbottom about her novel AESTHETICA + our use of IG as a modern form of fairy tale creation + major mother-daughter stuff (click also for one Wikipedian's perfect niche jell-o joke) https://t.co/XRG9mlycZj
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
God Spare the Girls
Kelsey McKinneytomorrow: join @annehelen and me on the Sidechannel discord with @mckinneykelsey to discuss our various churchy backgrounds, navigating media + author careers, and Kelsey's great debut novel, GOD SPARE THE GIRLS: https://t.co/9XTbTRwGvr
Paperback, 2022
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grotesque: A Thriller
Natsuo KirinoThere’s plenty of truly shudder-inducing twistiness to gape at throughout Kirino’s 2003 crime novel, but you can also read Grotesque like something of a nightmarish fairy tale.... If you’re the type to stick around for happily ever afters, this is definitely not the beach read for you
Paperback, 2008
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sour Heart: Stories
Jenny ZhangJenny Zhang’s Sour Heart was one of the first books I read where I was like, “Oh my god, I didn’t know our stories could be out there like this.” ...Even getting that the title Sour Heart is an English version of this phrase in Mandarin—that felt like a secret passcode.
Paperback, 2018
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Central Places
Delia Caigot Interviewed lol https://t.co/UEmVzK84QA
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book