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Michael Marshall Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. And Michael Marshall, and Michael Rutger. Novelist, screenwriter, sitting place of cats, Creative Director of The Blank Corporation. Legacy verified.

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Book Cover for: The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time, Maria Konnikova

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time

Maria Konnikova
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

Big recommend for THE CONFIDENCE GAME, by @mkonnikova. Absolutely fascinating book about con-men, and how their techniques reveal psychological insights into how we think. Good enough that I’ve immediately bought her other two books. Unless maybe she made me do that, somehow.

Paperback, 2017

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New, Annie Dillard

The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

Annie Dillard
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

Reading Annie Dillard’s collection of essays, THE ABUNDANCE. Dear lord her prose is good. Every sentence is perfect. Every single one. So perfect it’s as if some ineffable chicken-shaped word god laid them like eggs, and yet none trap you: all gracefully hand you on to the next. https://t.co/cYkCtIcaiU

Paperback, 2017

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

One of the many delights of Umberto Eco's FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM — for my money, the best novel ever written — is how he plays with this idea. https://t.co/TQG5VSlUuo

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Billy Summers, Stephen King

Billy Summers

Stephen King
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

When it feels like @StephenKing just sweeps everything off the table and says “I’m going to tell you a story” and then starts typing and tells it lean and fast from inside the characters, there’s simply no better storyteller in the world. BILLY SUMMERS is one of those books.

Paperback, Mass Market, 2023

$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives on in the Land!, Stephen Jones

The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives on in the Land!

Stephen Jones
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

Delighted to be a part of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF FOLK HORROR, as writer and photographer... edited by Stephen Jones and out now from Skyhorse. https://t.co/1gaU8db17m

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Book Cover for: The Anomaly, Michael Rutger

The Anomaly

Michael Rutger
Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith

Delighted that THE ANOMALY — US publication today —has been selected as one of the best thriller and suspense novels of the month by Amazon. Handy reminder: Michael Rutger = me. #TheAnomaly https://t.co/cnW5pqNVAo

Paperback, Mass Market, 2019

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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