Hillary Kelly 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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Biography of X
Catherine LaceyHillary KellyLacey fashioned the enigma that is X... out of dozens of artists and provocateurs and hucksters who inhabit our world, but she also made her something inimitable, a vehicle for exploring Lacey’s favorite theme: the fungibility of identity.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bell Jar
Sylvia PlathHillary KellySylvia Plath's tarot cards sold for £151,200, "more than her typewriter, or any of her books (including her personal proof copy of The Bell Jar or any first edition poetry collection) have ever sold for at auction." https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2021/10/your-very-own-sylvia-plath
Paperback, 2005
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sorrows of Young Werther
GoetheHillary KellyLearned today that after Goethe published The Sorrows of Young Werther a copycat suicide trend started; men dressed up as the character and leapt out the window with the book in hand. Novels!
Paperback, 2016
$6.25$3.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Natural History: Stories
Andrea BarrettHillary KellyBack on my Andrea Barrett bullshit (it’s not bullshit, these stories have let me entirely rethink my perspective on longing and the natural world). https://t.co/Vqwp3FPWS9
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightbitch
Rachel YoderHillary KellyRachel Yoder’s “Nightbitch” is a wily debut novel that makes the case for fiction that expands motherhood into new, surreal dimensions.
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan DiazHillary KellyWent on Chicago Public Radio's book podcast to talk about what made people so gaga for Hernan Diaz's "Trust," and managed to explain how I read the entire thing in one night while I was in the hospital. https://t.co/9keScCtsXd
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hypocrite
Jo HamyaHillary KellyContemporary fiction too often seeks the relief of some imagined perfect morality, perhaps because so many readers now conflate the beliefs of characters and their creator. It’s a pleasure to read a 27-year-old writer who embraces the novel’s power to fog up certainties about 'bad men'—and prods readers to join in.
Hardcover, 2024
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Air Fresh
Nina KimHillary KellyJust listened to an old Fresh Air where John le Carré essentially thanks Ian Fleming for writing awful books that made people want better spy novels — like his own.
Paperback, 2019
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lapvona
Ottessa MoshfeghHillary KellyI wanted to headline it "Ottessa Moshfegh Shits All Over Literature," but @Borisk is my superego.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inferno
Dante AlighieriHillary KellyHusband just asked if Dante’s Inferno is “plot-heavy.”
Paperback, Mass Market, 1982
$6.95$3.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book