John Self 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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What Maisie Knew
Henry JamesJohn Self“Time and again, I come back to three great novels: Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, William Golding’s The Inheritors. Not because I want to write like that, but because they tell me what the novel can do.” https://t.co/acxIJwWnZ9
Paperback, 2015
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A Game of Hide and Seek
Elizabeth TaylorJohn SelfThis beautiful Virago Modern Classics edition is older (36 years) than Elizabeth Taylor’s A Game of Hide and Seek was when it was made a Virago Modern Classic (35 years). Cover image: Karoly Patko, Still Life with Lilies and Blue Hat (1931) https://t.co/UYkNDH83ag
Paperback, 2012
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Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Norman RushJohn Self"In August 2021 I found myself consumed by bitterness, regret, distrust of my friends and loved ones. In other words, my usual mood, except that this time it all had a focus: somehow nobody had ever told me about Mating by Norman Rush." Ned Beauman: https://t.co/63tilUP8m0
Paperback, 1992
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Full Moon
P. G. WodehouseJohn SelfP. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings novels, in 1980s Penguin paperback editions with cover illustrations by @chrisriddell50. (The first Wodehouse I read was Full Moon, in this format.) https://t.co/woj0qbasEp
Hardcover, 2006
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The Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria RilkeJohn SelfRainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, in a shiny new edition of the first English translation by Vita and Edward Sackville-West, published by the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press in 1931. Out next month from Pushkin Press. https://t.co/0KlqZfkVJR
Paperback, 2017
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Animal Farm
George OrwellJohn SelfWhat to make of a George Orwell biog where the index has as many entries for Brexit as for Animal Farm, and where Nigel Farage has more than Orwell’s wife Sonia? Welcome to the weird world of Richard Bradford, who tries to do two things and fails at both. https://t.co/QgfHKUq0DN
Hardcover, 1990
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonJohn SelfToni Morrison novels in 1980s/90s Picador editions. Love that excitable quote on Beloved. https://t.co/uT0beJsxg7
Paperback, 2004
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Bambi
Felix SaltenJohn SelfAnd it’s inspired by a novel by Felix Salten, who also wrote the novel (and source for the film) Bambi. https://t.co/eDU9bRvUUY
Paperback, 2024
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
James HannahamJohn Self“You can’t win against the cripple factor. Let alone some *white* cripples.” Me on the hectic street music of James Hannaham's novel of a Black trans Colombian woman released from jail, Didn't *Nobody* Give a *Shit* What Happened to Carlotta: https://t.co/s4CxY8SkFL
Paperback, 2023
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Matilda: Broadway Tie-In
Roald DahlJohn SelfRead an interview with an author (born 1957) who says the first book they loved as a child was Matilda by Roald Dahl (first published 1988).
Paperback, 2013
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