Hamilton Cain Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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In which I review Maggie O'Farrell's absorbing, atmospheric new novel, "The Marriage Portrait," for @OprahDaily. Just out from @AAKnopf. https://t.co/t3QYDucUBU

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Dazzles as both Christmas tale and erudite novel ... The author’s affection for his characters buoys each chapter ... Williams packs his paragraphs with lush imagery and piercing psychological insight. Line by line, it may be the most beautifully written novel I’ve read this year.

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@samhaselby @SWGoldman Y'all don't miss Gary Gerstle's "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order" just out from Oxford University Press.

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Ye nonfiction nerds: don't miss Jackson Lears' wide-ranging history of a single complex idea: "Animal Spirits," just out from @fsgbooks. Here's my review for "On the Seawall." Thanks to @ronslate for the opportunity and @samhaselby for the heads-up. https://t.co/1ejOCir0IV

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Top five nonfiction reads of 2022: Mr. B, Jennifer Homans; The Song of the Cell, Siddhartha Mukherjee; The Revolutionary, Stacy Schiff; Lost & Found, Kathryn Schulz; An Immense World, Ed Yong.

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In which the new @oprahsbookclub selection, Viola Davis's "Finding Me," debuts at #1 on the NYT bestseller list: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/hardcover-nonfiction/

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Russo’s characters are caught in limbo. Scratch their psychic scabs — which he does, again and again — and rage and sorrow spill out... He paints a shining fresco of a working-class community, warts and all, a 30-year project come to fruition in this last, best book.

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We rarely see a novel this assured that centers on disability. “Happiness Falls” dares to unlock the enigma of love at the molecular level while serving up a page-turner.

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“The New Life” is a fine-cut gem, its sentences buffed to a gleam, but with troubling implications for our own reactionary era. Progress ... faces fresh threats... (Crew's) book brims with élan and feeling, an ode to eros and a lost world, and a warning about the dangers ahead.

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A transfixing collage of gorgeous prose and manipulated illustrations, with themes of cultural erasure and the effervescence of lust and love… it's easily 2023's sexiest novel.