Kay Sohini, PhD Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Kay Sohini, PhD on XWriter, Artist. THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS CITY coming from Jonathan Cape/PRH, 2024. Bylines in @thenib and @washingtonpost

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate BeatonHey look, @beatonna’s DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS aka the best comic book I have read this year, is on Obama’s favorite books of 2022! https://t.co/rDWqYQA33G
Hardcover, 2022
$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hot Comb
Ebony Flowers@KristinaLucenko @jshelat1 Thanks for recommending my work, Kristina! I’d also highly recommend Ebony Flowers’ HOT COMB. https://t.co/EQH4xBtqfX
Paperback, 2019
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grief Time: Step By Step To Overcome Your Breakup Time: Using Positive Thinking To Overcome The Breakup
Joaquin SymeonHi, I made a short comic on what I call GRIEF TIME* for @Em_Wald and co's fantastic new collection on Graphic Formalism. *It's actually an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Unbelonging. https://t.co/fg8ebML8fe
Paperback, 2021
$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Talk to My Back
Yamada MurasakiWhat are some Asian (specifically based in Asia, not diasporic) comics we love? My list includes Munnu (Malik Sajad), Kari (Amruta Patil), Grass (Keum Suk Gendry-Kim), and Talk to My Back (Yamada Murasaki). I would love to read more! Short comics are great too.
Paperback, 2022
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Here
Richard McGuireAnother splash page from my upcoming graphic memoir UNBELONGING on how time operates during depressive episodes and how drawing keeps me grounded. With reference to space-time in Richard McGuire’s Here on the desk in the foreground. https://t.co/d4rUcFkHBB
Hardcover, 2014
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean VuongJust finished reading Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and I wish I could start over for the first time. What a hauntingly beautiful book. https://t.co/FvsRafkeh1
Paperback, 2021
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui@smizz @lldiedrich @Nsousanis Espe's The Parakeet, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Hakim's Odyssey, Hyperbole and a Half, Ingrid Chabbert's Waves, everything Bechdel and Walden...
Paperback, 2018
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
Emil Ferris@doepublic Sure! From the top— Art Spiegelman Lynda Barry Marjane Satrapi Joe Sacco Adrian Tomine Kari from Kari by Amruta Patil Alison Bechdel Roz Chast Malik Sajad Thi Bui Kate Beaton Karen from My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris MK Czerwiec aka Comic Nurse Ebony Flowers
Paperback, 2024
$44.99Member price:$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Colossus of New York
Colson WhiteheadReading Colson Whitehead’s The Colossus of New York this morning— “If they think those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.” https://t.co/40GzvTyPfs
Paperback, 2004
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Parakeet
Espé@smizz @lldiedrich @Nsousanis Espe's The Parakeet, Thi Bui's The Best We Could Do, Hakim's Odyssey, Hyperbole and a Half, Ingrid Chabbert's Waves, everything Bechdel and Walden...
Hardcover, 2021
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book