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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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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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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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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