Granum Foundation 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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Non-profit that strives to identify and invest in the next generation of pathbreaking writers. Co-founders Davin Malasarn and Troy Nethercott.

We Are a Haunting
Tyriek White
Congrats to 2022 Granum Prize shortlister #TyriekWhite, whose #novel, WE ARE A HAUNTING, recently released from @astrahousebooks! White is on a book tour that runs through August. If you're in New Orleans, you can catch White's reading TONIGHT, May 18, at 5PM @TheGDBookShop! https://t.co/vWFXI9i6Mq
Hardcover, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ferguson Report: An Erasure
Nicole Sealey
Don't miss the excerpt from inaugural Granum Prize winner @Nic_Sealey's forthcoming book, THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE (@penguinrandom, Aug. 2023), in @The_Rumpus: https://t.co/3pwJsVzmq7. https://t.co/xYIeotvOnx
Hardcover, 2023
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: Stories
Omer Friedlander
Omer Friedlander recently published his short story collection, THE MAN WHO SOLD AIR IN THE HOLY LAND (@penguinrandom 2022). He is finishing a first draft of his novel THE GLASS GOLEM partly inspired by the story of his grandfather and #PulitzerPrize recipient, #SaulFriedlander. https://t.co/mVeJwQJbOR
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ordinary Beast: Poems
Nicole Sealey
In the new episode of The Artist's Statement, poet & inaugural Granum Prize winner @Nic_Sealey discusses her editorial decisions in her early works—THE ANIMAL AFTER WHOM OTHER ANIMALS ARE NAMED (@NorthwesternUP) & ORDINARY BEAST (@eccobooks)—& how they sparked ideas for new work. https://t.co/k4CUzh82Yk
Paperback, 2018
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Maria, Maria: & Other Stories
Marytza K. Rubio
We're thrilled to see Granum board member Marytza K. Rubio's debut short story collection MARIA, MARIA on the 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction. Congratulations, Marytza! https://t.co/dilwYM7hpP
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ferguson: Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Department Of Justice
Inaugural Granum Prize winner @Nic_Sealey's THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE—a meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department’s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department—is out 8/22. Preorder today @penguinrandom: https://t.co/kwGZapXYYJ! https://t.co/o2xZcuVe7Q
Paperback, 2015
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems
Nicole Sealey
In the new episode of The Artist's Statement, poet & inaugural Granum Prize winner @Nic_Sealey discusses her editorial decisions in her early works—THE ANIMAL AFTER WHOM OTHER ANIMALS ARE NAMED (@NorthwesternUP) & ORDINARY BEAST (@eccobooks)—& how they sparked ideas for new work. https://t.co/k4CUzh82Yk
Paperback, 2016
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department
Civil Rights Division
Inaugural Granum Prize winner @Nic_Sealey's THE FERGUSON REPORT: AN ERASURE—a meditation on our times, cast through a reconsideration of the Justice Department’s investigation of the Ferguson Police Department—is out 8/22. Preorder today @penguinrandom: https://t.co/kwGZapXYYJ! https://t.co/o2xZcuVe7Q
Paperback, 2016
$8.50$4.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Ben Ehrenreich
Season 2 of The Artist's Statement podcast is here! We open the season with journalist, essayist, and novelist, @BenEhrenreich, winner of a 2021 American Book Award for his non-fiction work #DesertNotebooks: A Roadmap for the End of Time. Listen anywhere you find #podcasts! https://t.co/pHmskTb3J4
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Claire Vaye Watkins
Congratulations to Claire Vaye Watkins, whose novel I LOVE YOU BUT I'VE CHOSEN DARKNESS (@riverheadbooks) will be adapted for TV! We were honored to talk with Watkins' about the novel on Ep. 10 of The Artist's Statement. Listen wherever you find podcasts! https://t.co/kpLRbySbdI
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book