Michael Agresta 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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Writer @TexasMonthly, @TexasObserver, Slate, Atlantic, Wired, T+L, WSJ. Teacher @StanfordCSP. I read, much of the night, and go north in the summer.
Rabbit Redux
John UpdikeMichael AgrestaSince I last posted I read Kudos by Cusk, Days of Abandonment and Trick by Ferrante/Starnone, Contempt by Moravia, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, The Heather Blazing by Toibin, The Steppe by Chekhov. In Euro mode, with travel. Also, had to quit Rabbit Redux 2/3 in bc it's so bad.
Paperback, 1996
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love Me Back
Merritt TierceMichael AgrestaFor @TexasMonthly, I talked with Merritt Tierce, author of the great service-class novel LOVE ME BACK and founding board member of Texas Equal Access Fund, an abortion non-profit. You may know her work from NYT Mag ("The Abortion I Didn't Have") or OITNB. https://t.co/rhTownDshG
Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A King Alone
Jean GionoMichael AgrestaBooks I've finished recently while mostly not on Twitter: THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE by Brown, THE PASSENGER by McCarthy, A KING ALONE by Giono, TURN UP THE OCEAN by Hoagland, THE BEAST GOD FORGOT TO INVENT by Harrison, WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Bronte, GLOBALISTS by Slobodian.
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aranyak
Bibhutibhushan BandopadhyayMichael AgrestaBooks I've finished since the last time I tweeted about books: Civilizations by Binet, Rabbit Run, The Trial (have done the complete Kafka fiction now except the second half of Amerika), Aranyak by Bandyopadhyay, Desperate Characters, The Dwarf by Lagerkvist.
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Heather Blazing
Colm ToibinMichael AgrestaSince I last posted I read Kudos by Cusk, Days of Abandonment and Trick by Ferrante/Starnone, Contempt by Moravia, Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, The Heather Blazing by Toibin, The Steppe by Chekhov. In Euro mode, with travel. Also, had to quit Rabbit Redux 2/3 in bc it's so bad.
Paperback, 2012
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Beast God Forgot to Invent
Jim HarrisonMichael AgrestaBooks I've finished recently while mostly not on Twitter: THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE by Brown, THE PASSENGER by McCarthy, A KING ALONE by Giono, TURN UP THE OCEAN by Hoagland, THE BEAST GOD FORGOT TO INVENT by Harrison, WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Bronte, GLOBALISTS by Slobodian.
Paperback, 2001
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Telephone
Percival EverettMichael AgrestaHi Twitter, how's everything been on here since I last logged on in mid-April? Intellectually, emotionally, professionally, and politically fruitful, for ourselves and not for whoever owns this url? Good. I read Percival Everett's TELEPHONE and am finishing up Judt's POSTWAR.
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dwarf
Par LagerkvistMichael AgrestaBooks I've finished since the last time I tweeted about books: Civilizations by Binet, Rabbit Run, The Trial (have done the complete Kafka fiction now except the second half of Amerika), Aranyak by Bandyopadhyay, Desperate Characters, The Dwarf by Lagerkvist.
Paperback, 1958
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
Bernard BailynMichael AgrestaSine the last time I logged on, I finished Fuccboi by Conroe, The Names by DeLillo, The Barbarous Years by Bailyn, and Time Shelter by Gospodinov. I recommend em all.
Paperback, 2013
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Time Shelter
Georgi GospodinovMichael AgrestaSine the last time I logged on, I finished Fuccboi by Conroe, The Names by DeLillo, The Barbarous Years by Bailyn, and Time Shelter by Gospodinov. I recommend em all.
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book