Jessica Ferri 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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Jessica Ferri is an author and book critic. Book critic @latimes and @washingtonpost & owner @wombhousebooks. Author of Silent Cities New York and Silent Cities San Francisco.

The Kingdom of Sand
Andrew Holleran
Holleran is a gorgeous writer, who writes of a walk down a neighborhood cul-de-sac with as much atmospheric grandeur as a sweeping war epic. So much is unspoken, vague and eerie, but this is a world we recognize that is both jarring and wonderful.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan Didion
"a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No one was watching me." - Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Paperback, 2007
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
There’s not much one needs to say to explain the excitement over a new book by Rooney, the Irish wunderkind whose first novel is the unbelievably perfect 'Conversations With Friends.' Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, 'Intermezzo' is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Loser
Thomas Bernhard
“But Glenn didn’t die from this long disease, I thought. He was killed by an impasse he had played himself into for almost forty years, I thought.” —Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
Paperback, 2006
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
Claire Dederer’s new book, “Monsters,” blew my mind. 👹 I spoke with her @latimesbooks https://t.co/Ipchbe5YaD
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ripe
Sarah Rose Etter
I profiled “friendly tornado” @sarahroseetter, whose novel “Ripe” publishes tomorrow, @latimesbooks. https://t.co/UGUtBGhZap
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Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso’s Very Cold People is out today: “The abuse wasn’t the story. The abuse was the setting. It’s elemental.” https://t.co/U9qlSn2bCX
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
In its boldness of premise and execution, Biography of X goes above and beyond, under the river and through the woods. It flaunts world-building skills that the writers of HBO's "Game of Thrones" wish they'd had... Lacey is one of the most fearless novelists writing today.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Taking Care
Joy Williams
Me realizing Joy Williams published a novel (State of Grace, 1973) before a collection of stories (Taking Care, 1982) https://t.co/rLT3xybiDv
Paperback, 1985
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard
"Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them." --Voltaire (the epigraph to Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters)
Paperback, 2010
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book