mayank austen soofi, the freelance Joycean Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
mayank austen soofi, the freelance Joycean on X
“... Delhi Walla’s work may add up to one of the most eccentric and encyclopedic ground-level portraits of a megacity in the Internet age”—New Yorker

Shame
Annie Ernaux
“You can learn more about yourself by embracing the outside world… it is other people—glimpsed in Métro or in waiting rooms—who revive our memory and reveal our true selves through the interest, the anger or the shame that they send rippling through us”… I luv u Annie Ernaux! https://t.co/zBm3ieJRob
Paperback, 1998
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dear Life: Stories
Alice Munro
Alice Munro’s Selected Stories—with the Great Author’s Sign!… my property! https://t.co/JL1WH9eGoF
Paperback, 2013
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
her family’s pride… Mehreen Shah, who just finished reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://t.co/STI4VSimiC
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn as Told by a Friend
Thomas Mann
Bestest book on music—Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann, first US edition… my possession! https://t.co/63F7ylSbKK
Paperback, 1999
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Years
Annie Ernaux
“Maybe the images have already fled, except for the ones that will always resist loss of memory”—-Annie Ernaux in The Years… the author in 1962 or 63, and the author in 2023 https://t.co/TB67Pf6iT9
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Final Harvest: Poems
Emily Dickinson
Like Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems… a beloved Alice Munro story to always stay with me https://t.co/dVfC0TQfEM
Paperback, 1964
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Everlasting Things
Aanchal Malhotra
See, after I die, you may still find me along the lanes of my Delhi, my Venice, my Paris, my Marseille, my Normandy, my Dublin and in this novel too—in Aanchal Malhotra’s new book The Book of Everlasting Things! https://t.co/uyRDkRmQuG
Hardcover, 2022
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
He is a climate change professional, but I know him better as the guy who read the whole of Vikram Seth’s super-fat novel A Suitable Boy while commuting on the Delhi Metro! Here’s his story! https://t.co/R3ewZq4BAK https://t.co/kKBcrOEtgX
Paperback, 2005
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
“Bring a little lavender in, if you got any. Pink, if you don’t”—Towards the End of Her Life, Baby Suggs Began to Ponder Colors… a Glimpse from Toni Morrison’s Beloved https://t.co/7c9wFeJ3Tn
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce James
her family’s pride… Mehreen Shah, who just finished reading James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://t.co/STI4VSimiC
Hardcover, 2018
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book