Kassie Rose 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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Book critic for Ohio @NPR member station @WOSU, addicted reader, out-of-control collector of first editions. Mom to #cardigancorgis Fitzgerald & Daisy Fay

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz
Hernan Diaz's new novel "Trust" creatively embraces the distortions power and wealth enable, bending reality. @riverheadbooks #hernandiaz http://thelongestchapter.com/2022/06/01/controlled-perception-a-20th-century-tycoons-life/
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Slough House
Mick Herron
“The Catch" is a perfect introduction to Mick Herron’s Slough House books about disgraced British spies. It’s a fast-paced novella that became the reason I picked up Herron's “Slow Horses.” But will I commit to completing the award-winning series? https://t.co/qnJduBLt2Z
Paperback, 2021
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin
The narrator of “Winter in Sokcho” will take away your heart in this @NationalBook award-winning story by @ElisaDusapin translated by @aneesa50abbas http://thelongestchapter.com/2021/11/30/winter-in-sokcho-by-elisa-shua-dusapin/
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
None Shall Look Back
Caroline Gordon
@neglectedbooks @IceCreamVisions Delighted to see Caroline Gordon on the list. I enjoyed her Civil War novel “None Shall Look Back” and the collection of letters with Flannery O’Conner published by U of Georgia Press.
Paperback, 1992
$22.90$11.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
RT @sylviaplathinfo: This paragraph in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is, I feel, among the most important. Not just in the novel itself, but…
Paperback, 2005
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder
Rachel Rear
Today on @WOSUAllSides I recommended the unputdownable Fellowship Point @MSRBooks & @RaeRear's Catch the Sparrow @BloomsburyPub There's more, including recs by @nickwhite1985 @BryanLoar https://news.wosu.org/show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2022-06-17/all-sides-weekend-books
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
Last Friday I recommended Cormac McCarthy's newest, @GMacraeBurnet's Case Study, & Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose. Many other books discussed, lots of them dark for this Halloween season! @Biblioasis @fsgbooks @AAKnopf @WOSUAllSides https://t.co/345DkWPlHC
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Clear
Connie Willis
@TheBookMaven @sarahw I’m reading Connie Willis’s time traveling WWII story All Clear, the follow up to Blackout. I love how it lets me forget everything I should be doing.
Paperback, 2011
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Turn, Magic Wheel
Dawn Powell
If you don't know the novels of Dawn Powell, read this great article and find out what you're missing! You'll be putting Turn Magic Wheel, A Time to be Born, and maybe Dance Night (her favorite) on your reading table. https://t.co/zMW1uVhYzJ
Paperback, 1999
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Today had the privilege to recommend books to @ColsSchForGirls alum book club. List included Shuggie Bain by @Doug_D_Stuart and How to Make a Slave by Jerald Walker @SamaraRafert, Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor and the Equivalents by Maggie Doherty.
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book