The Unbearable Lightness Being Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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My Year of Meats
Ruth Ozeki
@franklinleonard My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki. Oh and if you're in the mood for something more intense but still in that ballpark, A Certain Hunger by @chelseagsummers
Paperback, 1999
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trouble: Stories
Patrick Somerville
@ashleyel Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting Don’t Kiss Me by Lindsay Hunter Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville, Out There by Kate Folk, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
Paperback, 2006
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman
@sotsogm @SethCotlar I'm thinking of Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman, where Goldwater's quoted as saying things like "We're not going to get the Negro vote as a bloc in 1964 and 1968, so we ought to go hunting where the ducks are." See full excerpt attached. https://t.co/rVRZLtmPf4
Hardcover, 2015
$41.99$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
James Q. Whitman
@sickdangles23 @lostindixie @EndWokeness I mean, I can point you to dozens of history books I've read and you haven't that will back my claims. Gangsters of Capitalism by Jonathan M. Katz, How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, Hitler's American Model by James Q. Whitman, Red Summer by Cameron McWhirter ...
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hope: In a Lost and Fallen World
Guy A. Only
@soledadobrien Yeah, the guy comes off as a complete psychopath. "Shame I choked a man to death. Well, what are you going to do in a system as bad as this one!? I can only hope my killing a man inspires us all to come together and pursue real systemic change."
Paperback, 2012
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gutshot: Stories
Amelia Gray
@ashleyel Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting Don’t Kiss Me by Lindsay Hunter Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville, Out There by Kate Folk, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomie: Complete Deluxe Edition
Junji Ito
@evansquilliams I think you'd like Junji Ito if you've never gotten a look at his work. Tomie and Uzumaki are great places to start, if you haven't.
Hardcover, 2016
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Stories
Alissa Nutting
@ashleyel Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting Don’t Kiss Me by Lindsay Hunter Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville, Out There by Kate Folk, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
Paperback, 2018
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Something New Under the Sun
Alexandra Kleeman
@angsty_witch I loved Marin Ireland's reading of Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eleutheria
Allegra Hyde
If it's half as good as ELEUTHERIA it'll be amazing. But I'm sure it's even better than all that. If you haven't read anything by Allegra Hyde do yourself a favor and pick up her latest collection. https://t.co/BZcBlyAjCt
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book