Hamilton Cain 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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Hamilton Cain is a writer and book critic. Expat Tennessean in NYC. Bylines: @nytimesbooks, @wsj, @oprahdaily, @washingtonpost, @TheAtlantic, @BostonGlobe, @StarTribune, @PublishersWkly, @chapter16, &c.

So Far Gone
Jess Walter
Amid a spike in white nationalism, as our country reels from threats within, Walter seeks deeper bonds of affection, a holistic vision of We the People, even if it’s a mirage...A Witty Caper Starring Gun-Toting Christians in Rural Washington.
Hardcover, 2025
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
The acclaimed author of "Exit West" is back with the spellbinding, beautifully written "The Last White Man," out tomorrow from @riverheadbooks. Here's my review for @OprahDaily. @beckysaletan @glory_anne @jynnnne: https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40360348/mohsin-hamid-last-white-man-book-review/
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Huge congrats to @Morgan_J_Talty on winning @bookcritics' Leonard Prize for his stunning début, "Night of the Living Rez." Re-upping @OprahDaily's exclusive excerpt from last year: https://t.co/EojPZ6BAhx
Paperback, 2022
$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories
Mariana Enriquez
Enríquez unflinchingly regards the pain of others ... Feels as vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales. Considered by many to be a Nobel contender, Enríquez is surely on a path to Stockholm.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Girl
Aria Aber
Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other, with a layered story and sentences that crackle and pop, begging to be read aloud. Aria Aber’s splendid Good Girl introduces just such a voice.
Hardcover, 2025
$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
My critic's choice for @StribBooks is Anthony Doerr's "Cloud Cuckoo Land," out from @ScribnerBooks: https://www.startribune.com/holiday-books-2021-50-essential-books-for-winter-reading-and-holiday-shopping-fiction-nonfiction/600120008/
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fonseca
Jessica Francis Kane
Spare, absorbing... Kane is true to the muse at the center of her novel, highlighting not only Penelope Fitzgerald’s stature and vision but also the necessity of literature in an era of university budget cuts and social-media distractions.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
@TheFreeMFA @libbytheflores The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel, Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle, All Things Cormac McCarthy.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen's sumptuous "Crossroads" is not only about the implosion of a Midwestern pastor's family in 1971, it's also a novel in conversation with other literary works, including the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes." My review for @OprahDaily: https://t.co/tW7Tsq0iso
Paperback, 2022
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Audition
Katie Kitamura
Nobody writes like her, those lissome lines and abundance of commas. She’s one of the few who can pull off tell-don’t-show ... An alluring addition to an oeuvre whose works are larger on the inside than the outside, rendered in glittering sentences.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book