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Fifty Two 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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Book Cover for: Less, Andrew Sean Greer

Less

Andrew Sean Greer
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? A: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects by Mridu Rai

Paperback, 2018

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime, Stephen Alter

Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime

Stephen Alter
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? The Good @without_sans: The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro, Aosenla's Story by Temsula Ao, Becoming a Mountain by Stephen Alter Q: Which other FiftyTwo story do you wish you’d written? @without_sans: Asylum by @aloksarin & Sanjeev Jain

Hardcover, 2015

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Earthspinner, Anuradha Roy

The Earthspinner

Anuradha Roy
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? A: Rebecca May Johnson’s Small Fires; Anuradha Roy’s The Earthspinner and Yasmine Seale’s translation of The Arabian Nights. All majestic books.

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Em and the Big Hoom, Jerry Pinto

Em and the Big Hoom

Jerry Pinto
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? A: Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom, Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar, and Amanda Lee Koe's Delayed Rays of a Star

Paperback, 2014

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? The Good @without_sans: The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro, Aosenla's Story by Temsula Ao, Becoming a Mountain by Stephen Alter Q: Which other FiftyTwo story do you wish you’d written? @without_sans: Asylum by @aloksarin & Sanjeev Jain

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka

The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka
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What books are on your bedside table? @anuradhakumar01: Nayantara Sahgal, Storm in Chandigarh & Plans for Departure. Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers Julian Barnes, The Only Story The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick The recent issues of @parisreview and @LRB.

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Col Choat

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Col Choat
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? A: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects by Mridu Rai

Paperback, 2018

$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India, Maya Sharma

Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India

Maya Sharma
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“Silence doesn’t necessarily always imply oppression. Especially in a society where the unsaid and the gesture do most of the heavy lifting.” - Maya Sharma, author of Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Underprivileged India. From “Coupling,” by @WhyGaze. https://t.co/gUF7b7a4Gn

Paperback, 2020

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce James

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce James
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? A: Less by Andrew Sean Greer, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects by Mridu Rai

Hardcover, 2018

$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki

Light from Uncommon Stars

Ryka Aoki
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Q: What books are on your bedside table? @KapilKajal1: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach and India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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