Jen not Jenn 🐢 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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Joan Is Okay
Weike Wang
@KathMSchmidt Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Joan is Okay by Weike Wang (or Chemistry) (or both!)
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hurricane Girl
Marcy Dermansky
@KathMSchmidt Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Joan is Okay by Weike Wang (or Chemistry) (or both!)
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
@KathMSchmidt Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub Joan is Okay by Weike Wang (or Chemistry) (or both!)
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Modern Lovers
Emma Straub
@TheBookMaven @LouisBayard Modern Lovers by Emma Straub and In Her Boots by KJ Dell'Antonia
Paperback, 2017
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Signal Fires
Dani Shapiro
@TheBookMaven Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires (read) and Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperfield (listen)
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mercy Watson: Something Wonky This Way Comes
Kate DiCamillo
@KatieHAdams @JillBosa Also. Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses. Or, if you want really short chaps, her Mercy Watson books. (All of her books are miracles, tbh.)
Paperback, 2011
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thank You for Listening
Julia Whelan
@Leavittnovelist Have you read Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan? Mallomars shine in that book!
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
@Ofbooksandbikes Currently listening to Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin and reading I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by @mcrane_12 and loving both!
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Flora and Ulysses: Tie-In Edition
Kate DiCamillo
@KatieHAdams @JillBosa Also. Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses. Or, if you want really short chaps, her Mercy Watson books. (All of her books are miracles, tbh.)
Paperback, 2020
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
There Was No Possibility of Taking a Walk That Day: A Collection of Poems from the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown by the Members of A Walk Around the Bronte T
Kay Fairhurst Adkins Editor
@theantoniagold There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Paperback, 2020
$9.75$4.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book