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Gabino Iglesias Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Gabino Iglesias is an author and book critic. Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!

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Book Cover for: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias

The Devil Takes You Home

Gabino Iglesias
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This is awesome: a starred review for The Devil Takes You Home (@mulhollandbooks) in @bookpage, and right next to the great @JamieFord. Also, how about getting compared to Cormac McCarthy AND the Bible? Hah. Love it. “...brawny,serpentine and remarkably poignant novel.” 🖤 https://t.co/gxcE27hqDl

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes, Eric Larocca

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

Eric Larocca
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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 27: “man I hate emails” —Chloé’s 1-star review of Eric LaRocca’s Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke.

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silver Nitrate

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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But Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of the most unique and exciting voices in contemporary fiction, so when it comes to Silver Nitrate, each of these things only makes me want to read the novel even more. Moreno-Garcia makes darkness shine, and this one promises to be very dark.

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Book Cover for: Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Toni Morrison

Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison
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Tweeting 1-star Goodreads reviews of books I love for perspective, day 1: “They. Rape. Cows.” — Sannie’s 1-star review of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Paperback, 2004

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Don't Know Tough, Eli Cranor

Don't Know Tough

Eli Cranor
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My review of @elicranor’s Don’t Know Tough, from @soho_press, is now up at @SouthwestReview. http://southwestreview.com/a-novel-that-knows-what-football-means-in-the-south/

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: I'm Not Broken: A Memoir, Jesse Leon

I'm Not Broken: A Memoir

Jesse Leon
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A sad, brutally honest, and emotionally gritty memoir about "a poor, sexually abused, drug-addicted Chicano kid," I'm Not Broken is the kind of narrative that vividly brings to the page the realities of someone ignored by the system and trapped by the streets.

Paperback, 2022

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
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The Passenger is part familial trauma story and part slow-burning thriller. However, it's also much more than that. McCarthy writes about everything here, from buried gold and incredibly detailed dives to mathematics and the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Oscar Zeta Acosta

Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo

Oscar Zeta Acosta
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When I come home, I like to share stuff that had an impact on me/blew my mind/was influential/made me want to write. Here’s a short stack: Capote’s short stories, Oscar Zeta Acosta’s Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo, Bukowski’s Betting on the Muse, and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. https://t.co/vhr4RkPNUn

Paperback, 1989

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias

The Devil Takes You Home

Gabino Iglesias
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Thanks to publishing’s bizarre timing, I’m currently worried about the new novel I started writing back home, worried about the edits for the next one I’m waiting on, and worried about making sure the paperback of The Devil Takes You Home does well. 😬

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Stand, Stephen King

The Stand

Stephen King
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John Carpenter is trending. Paul Tremblay is trending. Stephen King is trending. The Stand is trending. The Black Phone is trending. Long live horror.

Paperback, 2012

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book