Dr Emma Southon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Dr Emma Southon on X
She/Her. Unstoppable historian. Preorder A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women/A Rome of One's Own. Rep'ed by Charlie Viney.

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
Trust by Hernan Diaz, which I read on the recommendation of @jessf_white because her recommendations are the best. Made me gasp on the bus. Easily my favourite fiction of this year https://t.co/6uKkfnowa7
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Real Easy
Marie Rutkoski
@victorianclare The Shining Girls by Lauren Buekes. Dog Rose Dirt by Jen Williams. Real Easy by Marie Rutkoski (SP?)
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
Bram Stoker
Happy birthday Bram Stoker, whose description of Count Dracula with his enormous moustache has been ignored completely for 124 years. https://t.co/s033YGCwLN
Hardcover, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vagabonds
Hao Jingfang
@jessf_white This came out in 2021 but fuck it. Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang is massive weird chewy very old school big idea SF that moves slowly but made me annotate extensively https://t.co/1BQ98SBinl
Paperback, 2021
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Devil House
John Darnielle
Finished Devil House by John Darnielle a couple of days ago (thanks Netgalley) and have read a whole other book since but I am still thinking about this one to the extent that I spent this morning re-reading chunks. https://t.co/3YwvFA5Xih
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don't Have to
Mimi Winsberg
@littlehux @J9andIf @bakingfiction @katobell @keewa Speaking in thumbs by Dr Mimi Winsberg. An empowering guide to over thinking https://t.co/CIskjGM2ih
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More Than Human
Theodore Sturgeon
@lukephilosophy More than Human by Theodore Sturgeon or The Hair Carpet Weavers by Andreas Eschbach
Paperback, 1998
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Matrix by Lauren Groff is exactly the kind of weird novel about domesticity and identity and religion that is made for me and other fans of Hild. Always love a nun book and loved this one https://t.co/cvbkonHiS0
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Lea Ypi
Free by Lea Ypi is a look at a life growing up in communist Albania, the end of communism and what freedom means in different contexts that I found fascinating. And I learned a lot about Albania. https://t.co/6LdVNhC3YN
Hardcover, 2022
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
True Crime
Samantha Kolesnik
@mildred_bonk I just finished reading True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik, and I am listening to a YouTube thing called Adhd Intense Releif Isochronic Tones, and I am not watching anything right now until drive to survive s4 starts tomorrow.
Paperback, 2025
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book