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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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyJohn Self“What happens when a writer who chronicles modern life becomes a part of it? We’re about to find out, now that “the new Sally Rooney” no longer refers to a person, but a book.” Me on Beautiful World, Where Are You and more: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/october-2021/the-satisfaction-of-small-pleasures/
Paperback, 2022
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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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Collected Poems
Michael DonaghyJohn Self“So much is chance, So much agility, desire and feverish care, As bicyclists and harpsichordists prove Who only by moving can balance, Only by balancing move.” —from ‘Machines’ by Michael Donaghy (Collected Poems) https://t.co/2u3vmUOVtS
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The Periodic Table: A Memoir
Primo LeviJohn SelfI wrote about Primo Levi's THE PERIODIC TABLE for @TheTimesBooks, and "the exceptional levels of intelligence, curiosity and imagination that the chemist requires, applied with equal care and empathy to the workings of the human mind." https://t.co/Wt8mBg5LFq
Paperback, 1995
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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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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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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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The Murderer
Roy HeathJohn SelfComing next month from Penguin in the UK and McNally Editions in the US (which I don’t have a copy of to photograph but it’s just as lovely): Roy Heath’s The Murderer, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1978. https://t.co/Z24KRILZeM
Paperback, 1986
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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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