Jo Walton 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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Jo Walton is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
The Italian Holiday
Victoria SpringfieldJo WaltonI really enjoyed the subsidiary romance of the widow and widower, and indeed all the old ladies on the trip were great, a truly excellent supporting cast. The heroine did skip out on going to Pompeii to further the plot, but otherwise lots of fun.
Paperback, 2021
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberJo WaltonThis book is amazing. It collects modern anthropological information about the Neolithic and early civilizations, and writes about them in a lively and examining way... beautifully written and full of thinky thoughts. Move it to the top of your pile.
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Framley Parsonage
Anthony TrollopeJo Walton@kithrup @ce_murphy It's very kind of you to say so, and even kinder to buy copies for people, but it isn't a version of Pride and Prejudice but Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage.
Paperback, 2014
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
K. J. ParkerJo Walton@Luk_O I've never had this problem except early in the pandemic & it was so horrible and what worked to make me be able to immerse on reading again was K.J. Parker's Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, good travel books, and romance novels set in Italy. This may not work for everyone!
Paperback, 2019
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rose Daughter
Robin McKinleyJo WaltonRobin McKinley's Beauty (1978), one of the first fairytale retellings and a real comfort read for me, only $1.99 today as an ebook https://t.co/bOJ952omcJ This is a post where I compare it to her later version, Rose Daughter https://t.co/SWQdUddUXd
Paperback, 2008
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Too Like the Lightning: Book One of Terra Ignota
Ada PalmerJo Walton@willwalking @Ada_Palmer @cwcoxjr They're a series of four books beginning with Too Like the Lightning (2016) which is definitely where you want to start.
Paperback, 2017
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tooth and Claw
Jo WaltonJo WaltonRT @HesperLeveret: Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton (a sentimental Victorian novel in which all the characters are talking cannibalistic dragons…
Paperback, 2009
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
Ross KingJo WaltonRoss King's fascinating readable fun The Bookseller of Florence, about humanism, books, the beginning of printing, and the Renaissance, only $2.99 as an ebook today https://t.co/rb0fQAc2Vw
Paperback, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
Barbara W. TuchmanJo WaltonBarbara Tuchman's compelling The Guns of August, a detailed and powerful examination of the very beginning of the First World War is only $1.99 today as an ebook @Ada_Palmer https://t.co/Mew0G0obEe
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Robin McKinleyJo WaltonRobin McKinley's Beauty (1978), one of the first fairytale retellings and a real comfort read for me, only $1.99 today as an ebook https://t.co/bOJ952omcJ This is a post where I compare it to her later version, Rose Daughter https://t.co/SWQdUddUXd
Paperback, 2018
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book