Jamie Ford 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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Jamie Ford is an author. NYT bestselling author of HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET and THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY. Decent writer. Failed poet. Stridently self-deprecating.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison BechdelJamie Ford@marskc Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin, Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Paperback, 2007
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Huzzah!!: A Cry For Independence
Martha SimpsonJamie FordNew Year's Resolutions: Join a gym but lift weights with my mind. Learn Elvish so I can write fan mail to Björk. End every text convo with, "HUZZAH!" Face Nashville daily and pray to Dolly Parton. Sing Wagner's Ring Cycle in the shower. Write more books than James Patterson.
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Ghost Story
Peter StraubJamie FordI read horror every October. I started this habit years ago with Ghost Story by Peter Straub. He set a very high bar. Sad to hear of his passing.
Paperback, 2016
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie FordJamie Ford"What if trauma was literally part of your DNA? The author of 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' makes generational trauma literal in his striking new novel..." https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/05/23/david-sedaris-jennifer-weiner-michael-mann-20-sizzling-summer-books/7210650001/
Paperback, 2009
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Illustrated: Young Man
James JoyceJamie FordA portrait of the artist as a not so young man. (Writers' Tears: James Joyce Edition by @WalshWhiskey is excellent). https://t.co/zNR5IxdbSC
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette WallsJamie Ford@jbenton Forgot to mention that a keynote speaker before me was Jeannette Walls, who wrote The Glass Castle. A group of parents had her book banned before she arrived. #awkward
Paperback, 2006
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Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts
John SteinbeckJamie FordJohn Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men and Seagulls. https://t.co/2Tl07pgU7p
Paperback, 2009
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The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan DidionJamie FordBook club tonight. We're talking about The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. I thought I'd love this book. But that was just magical thinking.
Paperback, 2007
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A River Runs Through It
Norman MacLeanJamie Ford@MireMarke @TheGiftOfLife19 Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was 74. You have time ;)
Hardcover, 1989
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Kindred
Octavia ButlerJamie Ford@lawgal09 Oh wow, too many to mention them all. Some recent books we've read in our book club: Kindred by Octavia Butler, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu. Also Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, and This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Paperback, 2004
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