Matt Miller 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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Learning to praise the mutilated world. // Notes from the garden: https://t.co/ZcSt3xsL6U // LEAVES OF HEALING, out 2024 from @BellePointPress
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthyMatt Miller4. THE BORDER TRILOGY by Cormac McCarthy. I tore through these novels while sick over Thanksgiving break. For all McCarthy’s reputation as a Very Serious writer, this is satisfying adventure fiction.
Hardcover, 1999
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Hamlet
W. ShakespeareMatt Miller@The_Big_Quiet I always enjoy pointing out to students that one early source of such advice (its origin?) is in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and it's advice offered by Polonius, who is famously a fatuous ass.
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Motherhood: A Confession
Natalie CarnesMatt Miller3. MOTHERHOOD by Natalie Carnes. Rich theological rejoinder to Augustine and also a heart-wrenching exploration of pregnancy and parenting.
Hardcover, 2020
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
Natasha TretheweyMatt Miller8. MONUMENT by Natasha Trethewey. Diverse poetic forms exploring memory, history, grief, and identity.
Paperback, 2019
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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Carol DeppeMatt Miller@STS_News @toteslates So many. Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden (a way of seeing the garden as an ecology); Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener (accessible food gardening); Monty Don, The Complete Gardener (a beautiful case study); Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts (a sharp book about gardening).
Paperback, 2010
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The Brothers K
David James DuncanMatt Miller@mattjenson The last book I read that met that description was *The Brothers K* by David James Duncan.
Paperback, 1996
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No Name in the Street
James BaldwinMatt Miller5. NO NAME IN THE STREET by James Baldwin. Moral clarity and some of the best sentences in American prose.
Paperback, 2007
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale HurstonMatt MillerHurston’s *Their Eyes Were Watching God* has one of the greatest first pages in fiction. That is all. https://t.co/qxJ8NHOneH
Paperback, 2006
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An Ordinary Life: Poems
B. H. FairchildMatt MillerFairchild’s poems get at the heart of the Midwest. Here’s another I love: https://t.co/WGpHKUZa1E https://t.co/veUD5AjsuG
Hardcover, 2023
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Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
Eleanor PerenyiMatt Miller@STS_News @toteslates So many. Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden (a way of seeing the garden as an ecology); Carol Deppe, The Resilient Gardener (accessible food gardening); Monty Don, The Complete Gardener (a beautiful case study); Eleanor Perenyi, Green Thoughts (a sharp book about gardening).
Paperback, 2002
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