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Jeremy Gordon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jeremy Gordon is a senior editor at The Atlantic. Debut novel SEE FRIENDSHIP out winter 2025 // Writing (NYT, The Nation, GQ) & editing (The Atlantic) elsewhere, newsletter at https://t.co/ivcrhNBVu7

13 books
Book Cover for: Love Me Tender, Constance Debre

Love Me Tender

Constance Debre
Jeremy GordonJeremy Gordon

The book sounds really interesting but kind of a funny way to downplay the fact that your grandfather was the prime minister of France https://t.co/YHSjW6FOo8 https://t.co/yCPzC4Ic1X

Paperback, 2022

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Monica

Daniel Clowes
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Her journey takes many surreal twists: Ghosts are involved, as is a bizarre California cult and--because this is a Clowes story, where doom is never far off--the literal apocalypse... the more time I spent with Monica, the more I felt moved by the emotional ambition of its decades-long narrative.

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Cigarettes, Harry Mathews

Cigarettes

Harry Mathews
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Harry Mathews’ Cigarettes, amazing novel about mid-century perverts

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Alphabet Dot To Dot Book For Kids Ages 3-5: Christmas: A Fun Educational Puzzle Activity Book for Toddlers, Preschoolers, Children With Bonus Coloring, Fun World

Alphabet Dot To Dot Book For Kids Ages 3-5: Christmas: A Fun Educational Puzzle Activity Book for Toddlers, Preschoolers, Children With Bonus Coloring

Fun World
Jeremy GordonJeremy Gordon

Elf, just a perfect Christmas movie... concept rests entirely on "it's fun to watch Will Ferrell joyously bumble his way through the civilized world like a beaming adult baby," and you know what, they nailed it

Paperback, 2020

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Years, Annie Ernaux

The Years

Annie Ernaux
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In The Years, Annie Ernaux makes a reference to teenagers playing the PlayStation in the '80s... this is why every novel should be fact-checked by gamers

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay, Jordan Peele

Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

Jordan Peele
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Rewatched Get Out for the first time since theaters... admire Jordan Peele for going "it's my movie, sorry, it gets a happy ending"

Paperback, 2019

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Lazy City

Rachel Connolly
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A wonderful book about how hanging out in Belfast with your old friends makes for the best time — but in all seriousness, if you’ve ever enjoyed @RachelConnoll14’s perceptive and witty writing, you simply must order her debut novel LAZY CITY https://t.co/nAMD7yg6vV

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex, John Gray

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

John Gray
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In Clueless the first two books on Brittany Murphy’s reading list are Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and @nicholsonbaker8’s Vox https://t.co/pvGby6bbJ7

Paperback, 2012

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut
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The five best books I read this year (unranked): Benjamin Labatut - When We Cease to Understand the World Fleur Jaeggy - Sweet Days of Discipline Lena Andersson - Willful Disregard Jose Emilio Pacheco - Battles in the Desert Vigdis Hjorth - Will and Testament

Paperback, 2021

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Nineties: A Book, Chuck Klosterman

The Nineties: A Book

Chuck Klosterman
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I wrote about Chuck Klosterman and his latest book THE NINETIES for @thenation https://t.co/uhUjOj2pT6

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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