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Maud Newton 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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Maud Newton is an author and critic. Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE, a best book of 2022 per New Yorker, NPR, WaPo, more. John Leonard Prize Finalist. Work in NYTmag, Guardian, etc. Opinions mine. She/her.

37 books
Book Cover for: Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge

Libertie

Kaitlyn GreenidgeMaud NewtonMaud Newton

I'm reading Kaitlyn Greenidge's wondrous Libertie. Herbs, magic, death, ghosts, grief, the ocean. A daughter whose worship of her doctor mom curdles when an attempted cure worsens spiritual ailments left by slavery. I know what I'm doing this afternoon. https://t.co/raSC9foAcF https://t.co/iOxWmGsNBR

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Exvangelical: Seven Steps to Leaving Evangelical Christianity Without Losing Your Faith, Peter Traben Haas

Exvangelical: Seven Steps to Leaving Evangelical Christianity Without Losing Your Faith

Peter Traben HaasMaud NewtonMaud Newton

I wrote this book with my fellow #exvangelical seekers heavy on my heart and so this praise coming from Jeanna means more than I can possibly say. 🖤🕯 https://t.co/cwGY0RMwBl

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Book Cover for: Never Simple: A Daughter's True Story of a Mother's Made-Up Life, Liz Scheier

Never Simple: A Daughter's True Story of a Mother's Made-Up Life

Liz ScheierMaud NewtonMaud Newton

On April 1, I'll be talking about memoir and memory with fellow memoirist Liz Scheier (Never Simple; excited to read) for @SquareBooks at the Oxford Conference for the Book. This one is in person and outdoors in Oxford, Mississippi. 10:30 AM CT. https://t.co/GkuWB8fAzB

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family, Garrard Conley

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Garrard ConleyMaud NewtonMaud Newton

Image reads: "Essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about themselves through the prism of the past – which is to say, nearly everyone. – Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased" Pictured: my grandparents seated unhappily at a restaurant table, ~ 1939.

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Passing, Nella Larsen

Passing

Nella LarsenMaud NewtonMaud Newton

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: All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler, Rebecca Donner

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca DonnerMaud NewtonMaud Newton

I'm thrilled to have ANCESTOR TROUBLE reviewed so thoughtfully by @marionwinik alongside @RRRDonner's ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS, one of my favorite books of last year & a must-read for any year. https://www.wypr.org/show/the-weekly-reader-on-wypr/2022-05-17/generations-past-all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-by-rebecca-donner-and-ancestor-trouble-by-maud-newton

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri

Whereabouts

Jhumpa LahiriMaud NewtonMaud Newton

ANCESTOR TROUBLE and Jhumpa Lahiri's WHEREABOUTS are @nprbooks' books of the day! https://t.co/hqPOQ1FbCq

Paperback, 2022

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book, James Hillman

Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book

James HillmanMaud NewtonMaud Newton

I've been giving away books that fed into or inspired Ancestor Trouble in one way or another. The next giveaway (starts mid-Sept) will include Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung's Red Book, & Jung's Memories, Dreams, Reflections. General info here: https://t.co/PyxDBVYCEH

Hardcover, 2013

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

Honoree Fanonne JeffersMaud NewtonMaud Newton

RT @4thEstateBooks: The six best new books to read this month from @Independent, including THE LOVE SONGS OF W. E. B. DU BOIS by @BlkLibrar…

Hardcover, Large Print, 2022

$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed YongMaud NewtonMaud Newton

So many excellent books among the finalists—including, in nonfiction, @nhannahjones' THE 1619 PROJECT, Tanaïs' IN SENSORIUM, @edyong209's AN IMMENSE WORLD, and three I'm eager to read, from Ann Patchett, Margaret A. Burnham, and Lindsey Fitzharris. Congrats to all! https://t.co/IkWiLQpvkO

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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