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Lydia Kiesling 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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Lydia Kiesling is an author and literary critic. Author of novels THE GOLDEN STATE (2018) & MOBILITY (August 2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Cut, etc. Buy MOBILITY: https://t.co/NUYVTX726I

29 books
Book Cover for: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

Hilary Mantel was a genuinely weird and breathtaking prose stylist and the Wolf Hall trilogy lives and breathes and creeps and dances on the page.

Paperback, 2021

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Passing, Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella Larsen
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

RT @AlexKleeman: For this week’s @nytmag I wrote about actress-director Rebecca Hall and her new adaptation of Nella Larsen’s “Passing,” ou…

Paperback, 2003

$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Amitav Ghosh

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Amitav Ghosh
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

Everybody read The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh and let's reconvene to discuss The Novel and revisit the Moshfegh Bookforum quote

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Naomi Klein
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

I'm back to recommend Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything where she explains that people are much more motivated to pull together, sacrifice, & do hard things when they believe the hard things are fairly apportioned. (Also that we have to end extractivism & capitalism) ✈️

Paperback, 2015

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, Marisa Crane

I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Marisa Crane
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

I reviewed Marisa Crane's I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, a beautiful novel with one of my new favorite fictional narrators https://t.co/YXRSK8gu2R

Paperback, 2024

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Toad, Katherine Dunn

Toad

Katherine Dunn
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

Reading Toad by Katherine Dunn (newly surfaced by @naomihuffman) & damn: "I was a great follower of persons. Flex a bicep, and I'd espouse your gospels. Lift an interesting brow and I'd follow you up mountains or sit on wet pavements swilling romance with my diet of river air" 😭 https://t.co/kKrpKEUpy8

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad

What Strange Paradise

Omar El Akkad
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

Happy pub day to @omarelakkad! Join me in celebrating his new novel, What Strange Paradise (which today received a complete rave in the NYT--"deserves to be an instant classic" I believe was said) on Zoom at @CommunityBkstr on 7/29! https://t.co/ieIrJlTo9l

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Count Belisarius, Robert Graves

Count Belisarius

Robert Graves
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

I recently remembered that I wrote an introduction to a new edition of Count Belisarius by Robert Graves during peak pandemic memory-holed time and I hope it's a thing that my kids find someday and are like, huh, mom was always doing a lot of random shit wasn't she

Paperback, 2022

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Know My Name: A Memoir, Chanel Miller

Know My Name: A Memoir

Chanel Miller
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

RT @nichibei: Artist Chanel Miller, author of the award-winning "Know My Name: A Memoir," will speak with novelist, essayist and mental hea…

Paperback, 2020

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A River of Stars, Vanessa Hua

A River of Stars

Vanessa Hua
Lydia KieslingLydia Kiesling

Read @vanessa_hua on what it feels like to be pregnant (with twins!!!!) and also read her fantastic novel A River of Stars. https://amp.thecut.com/2018/05/what-does-being-pregnant-feel-like-part-two.html?__twitter_impression=true

Paperback, 2019

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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