Ian Mond 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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Ian Mond is a writer and book critic. I review books for @locusmag. I’m always on the look out for genre and weird fiction from small presses. I also co-host @WriterandCritic with @fearofemeralds.
Rouge Street: Three Novellas
Shuang XuetaoIan MondBooks Read: Rouge Street by Shuang Xuetao (trans: Jeremy Tiang) This, I believe, is the first time Xuetao’s work has been translated into English. I hope there’s more to come because the three novellas here are terrific. Blue collar fiction with a drop of the fantastic. https://t.co/cNjW7MzWTO
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Foundation
Isaac AsimovIan MondBooks Read: Foundation by Isaac Asimov. https://t.co/s8kZRDQ0DS
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Circle
Dave EggersIan MondBooks Read: The Circle by Dave Eggers. https://t.co/Bkb0ggAHkZ
Hardcover, 2019
$29.40$14.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
Emily St John MandelIan MondI loved the adapatation of Station Eleven. (It has the same vibe as the novel but departs significantly from it). And the soundtrack, which I can’t stop listneing to, is just wonderful.
Paperback, 2015
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Visit from the Goon Squad: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Jennifer EganIan MondBooks Read: The Candy House by Jennifer Egan. Did you like A Visit From the Goon Squad? Then you’ll love this. Structurally the same (it’s a mosaic novel) focusing on the peripheral characters in Goon Squad. No PowerPoint preso, but something similarly clever. I loved it. https://t.co/qjAqUD4z01
Paperback, 2011
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn WardIan MondAnd now it’s time for ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’ by Jesmyn Ward. A National Book Award finalist and a novel that has generated more hype - https://t.co/UFKd7kKo2s
Paperback, 2018
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell HammettIan MondBooks Read: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett One of the most famous crime novels ever written, and yet I’d neither read it nor seen the film. All I knew about it was that it featured Sam Spade (played by Bogart in the movie) and involved the statue of a Maltese Falcon, https://t.co/IzQVuNvH2D
Paperback, 1989
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fever House
Keith RossonIan MondBook Read: Fever House by Keith Rosson A couple of thugs stumble across a severed hand in the possession of a drug addict whose in debt to their boss. The thugs soon discover that this is no normal severed hand but one of occult provenance that causes any person in its vicinity https://t.co/JGwaZPX84L
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Box Hill
Adam Mars-JonesIan MondBooks Read: Batlava Lake by Adam Mars-Jones It’s short (novella length), all voice and has a punch in the gut ending. I know I have a Box Hill lying around here somewhere. I’ll read it this year (assuming I can find it), and buy his other novels. This is the good stuff. https://t.co/V5yeR28a0D
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Fever House
Keith RossonIan MondBook Read: Fever House by Keith Rosson A couple of thugs stumble across a severed hand in the possession of a drug addict whose in debt to their boss. The thugs soon discover that this is no normal severed hand but one of occult provenance that causes any person in its vicinity https://t.co/JGwaZPX84L
Out of stock