Liam Hess Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Ali Smith
If Ali Smith’s four-book magnum opus...forensically examined post-Brexit malaise in contemporary Britain, her latest novel...offers a chilling window into its endgame: a world where surveillance, data collection...and environmental collapse have created an Orwellian hellscape.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Fours
Miranda July
The razor-sharp prose of All Fours also offers a warm, generous blend of heartache and humor. Unsurprisingly, it’s already received cosigns from George Saunders and Emma Cline, with the latter hailing it “a brilliant work of art from a completely blown open and fearless mind.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How I Won a Nobel Prize
Julius Taranto
A razor-sharp debut…Taranto’s compelling dissections of moral gray areas and nail-bitingly tense passages of superconductivity experiments make the novel bracingly clever…a viciously funny page-turner with plenty of surprises.”
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Pinup
Hilton Als
Hilton Als returns with another slice of razor-sharp cultural criticism, this time clocking in at a brisk but perfectly judged 48 pages... An entertaining and erudite insight into Prince’s sacred (and often profane) legacy, My Pinup slips down like a cool, crisp martini.
Paperback, 2022
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Toad
Katherine Dunn
As seductive as it is deeply strange, Dunn’s whip-smart prose and pitch-black humor make Toad an illicit treat.
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Foster
Claire Keegan
Balancing Keegan’s delicate, sparing prose and masterful ear for dialogue with a tale that is almost overwhelming in its tenderness, Foster is a heart-wrenching treasure of a book that only serves to confirm Keegan’s place as one of contemporary Irish literature’s leading lights.
Hardcover, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mouth to Mouth
Antoine Wilson
a story that carries distinct shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt... Mouth to Mouth is an elegantly told and supremely gripping tale of serendipity and deception—and delivers a brilliant ending that will leave you guessing about everything that came before.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book