Gabe Habash Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Gabe Habash on X“I swear on my honor or whatever.” - Bolaño

The Water Statues
Fleur Jaeggy🐌 🐌 Fleur Jaeggy (from THE WATER STATUES) https://t.co/sm94qqPR29
Paperback, 2021
$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Joy WilliamsMary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp
Paperback, 2018
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Escapes: Stories
Joy WilliamsMary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp
Out of stock

Acting Class
Nick DrnasoI talked with Nick Drnaso about his new graphic novel & SABRINA follow-up, ACTING CLASS https://t.co/hGHIosVg97
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You Are Having a Good Time
Amie Barrodale@xtx33 You Are Having a Good Time by Amie Barrodale is one of my all-time favorites. Even the epigraph is memorable https://t.co/uXJz4Bcxzw
Paperback, 2016
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
John Berger"And although it was running slowly, it ran for its life. Sometimes that can happen." (from John Berger's And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos) https://t.co/cZ9nMj6AtX
Paperback, 2026
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Most of It
Mary RuefleMary Ruefle’s THE MOST OF IT is going on my shelf of favorite very short prose books, next to Joy Williams’s NINETY-NINE STORIES OF GOD, Daniil Kharms’s TODAY I WROTE NOTHING, and Kafka’s ZÜRAU APHORISMS • “Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.” https://t.co/zLli1kkphp
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Optic Nerve
Maria GainzaOPTIC NERVE is one of my favorite novels of the decade & I can’t wait to pick up María Gainza’s new novel https://twitter.com/CatapultStory/status/1415372942427361282
Paperback, 2020
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
From the Shadows
Juan José MillásPeriodic reminder that FROM THE SHADOWS by Juan José Millás is one of the best novels of the century. https://t.co/duj6YPYH3C
Paperback, 2019
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso“Everyone eats a peck of dirt in their life.” I love Sarah Manguso’s work and her first novel, VERY COLD PEOPLE, is just as wonderful as her nonfiction https://t.co/ij2GRweQCm
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book