Max Lawton 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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novelist. translator of Russian, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Turkish novels (Vladimir Sorokin, Jonathan Littell, Michael Lentz…). musician.
The Atrocity Exhibition
J. G. BallardMax LawtonBest book to read alongside THEIR FOUR HEARTS is @blakebutler's 300,000,000––to then be chased with the illustrated edition of Ballard's THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION https://t.co/orD3THvn5A
Paperback, 1990
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Coldheart Canyon
Clive BarkerMax LawtonEvery day, I run past COLDHEART CANYON and think of Clive Barker
Paperback, 2016
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Glamorama
Bret Easton EllisMax LawtonSorokin’s three favorite contemporary novels are: Jonathan Littell’s THE KINDLY ONES, @BretEastonEllis’s GLAMORAMA, and Christian Kracht’s 1979. Consider it your homework to read these before April—the beginning of the Sorokinaissance.
Paperback, 2000
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Ulysses: A Drama in a Prologue & Three Acts
Stephen PhillipsMax LawtonReally like the reading of ULYSSES that the main mechanism of the plot is Bloom trying to get Stephen to have sex with Molly
Out of stock
The Shards
Bret Easton EllisMax LawtonNow diving back into @BretEastonEllis’s absolutely fantastic new novel THE SHARDS after shirking turkey-duty all day yesterday to sneak away and read it https://t.co/TWclvgHZtE
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Kindly Ones
Jonathan LittellMax LawtonSorokin’s three favorite contemporary novels are: Jonathan Littell’s THE KINDLY ONES, @BretEastonEllis’s GLAMORAMA, and Christian Kracht’s 1979. Consider it your homework to read these before April—the beginning of the Sorokinaissance.
Paperback, 2013
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Growth of the Soil
Knut HamsunMax LawtonHORROR STORIES, the new Nádas novel, is like GROWTH OF THE SOIL for pervs / fans of ANTICHRIST and THE LIGHTHOUSE
Paperback, 2013
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The Unlimited Dream Company
J. G. BallardMax LawtonTHE UNLIMITED DREAM COMPANY might be Ballard’s best book
Paperback, 2013
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children
Sara ZaskeMax LawtonGoing to write a short story about riding Birds around Berlin stoned while listening to ACHTUNG BABY and ZOOROPA—visiting bookstores and looking for the new Péter Nádas novel
Paperback, 2018
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Their Four Hearts
Vladimir SorokinMax LawtonSorokin’s been told several times that Bolaño was a big fan of THEIR FOUR HEARTS after having read the French translation from Gallimard. There’s more than a little bit of T4H’s DNA in “The Part About the Killings”. You can now buy T4H wherever books are sold! https://t.co/Ou7W6GbWNw
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book