Julia S. 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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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
https://t.co/E1NI6LgmgY THE CULT OF RICHARD OSMAN has a devoted following here at Stately Booktweeting Manor, and his latest adventure for the elderly sleuths of the Thursday Murder Club does not disappoint. Beautifully crafted entertainment. A MINUS
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Puzzle Pack: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
William T. Collins
@oblongirl Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Dragonwings by Laurence Yep The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, by E. L. Konigsburg anything by John Bellairs
Paperback, 2014
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
@ctrlaltcassie Bastard Out of Carolina, by Dorothy Allison Burnt Sugar, by Avni Doshi
Paperback, 2022
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Princess Trap
Talia Hibbert
@melanatedreader Some recommendations for romance readers: Real Men Knit (and its sequel, Knot Again) by Kwana Jackson The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins And some historical fiction: Island Queen by Vanessa Riley By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley
Paperback, 2021
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
@luxlotus Night of the Living Rez, by Morgan Talty Gods of Want, by K-Ming Chang The Souvenir Museum, by Elizabeth McCracken If I Survive You, by Jonathan Escoffery
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Planet of Junior Brown
Virginia Hamilton
@oblongirl Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Dragonwings by Laurence Yep The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth, by E. L. Konigsburg anything by John Bellairs
Paperback, 2006
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life
Flann O'Brien
@LaurenElkin I mean, going back, we’ve got Violette le Duc, W. H. Davies, even Rousseau for heaven’s sake. A thing about Angela’s Ashes many people forget is that it was a reboot of an established genre in Irish writing, so established that Flann O’Brien parodied it in The Poor Mouth (1941)
Paperback, 1996
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Island Queen
Vanessa Riley
@melanatedreader Some recommendations for romance readers: Real Men Knit (and its sequel, Knot Again) by Kwana Jackson The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins And some historical fiction: Island Queen by Vanessa Riley By Her Own Design by Piper Huguley
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle
@petridishes Jawbone, by Mónica Ojeda The Atrocities, by Jeremy Shipp The Ballad of Black Tom, by Victor LaValle
Paperback, 2016
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
@BGrueskin “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984 Memoryholing an actual legal verdict on a “news” network is some next-level stuff, though.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book