Molly Young Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Molly Young on X
Molly Young is a book critic. Mammal
Ubik
Philip K. DickMolly YoungIf I could propose two essential qualities of Dick as a human, they would be cosmic bafflement and heroic hopefulness, both present in Ubik. This is a novel with a long half-life. You may not clock the full effects until you find yourself thinking about it six or 60 months later.
Paperback, 2012
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel HawthorneMolly YoungIf I could assign a book to Twitter it would be "The Scarlet Letter" because the B plot is about a guy who is trapped in a rhetorical dungeon of his own making. Here are some other henids:
Paperback, 2015
$8.00$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir
Kathryn DavisMolly YoungTraditionally a memoirist’s task is to gather the flukes of her life and marshal them into something resembling a story. But Davis has a different project in mind. She has written a memoir that mimics the atemporal quality of the episodes that give meaning to life.
Paperback, 2022
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The nightmare: Novel
Hans FalladaMolly Youngjust an inspiring quote from a German novel published in 1937, also probably the least significant passage in the entire 816-page book. "Wolf Among Wolves" by Hans Fallada
Out of stock
Pages from the Goncourt Journals
Edmond De GoncourtMolly YoungWhy don't you... Sew PODS OF VANILLA into your coat collar to keep yourself smelling nice — and collect other hot tips about personal grooming from a pair of unrivaled French literary diarists?
Paperback, 2006
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elizabeth Finch
Julian BarnesMolly YoungRigorous fun: a nice description of Barnes the fiction writer. His ambitions expand and contract from novel to novel: some more fun, some more rigorous. “Elizabeth Finch,” though charming, could use a bit more of both.
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar WildeMolly YoungOscar Wilde is one of many authors I self-prescribe whenever my attention span is in smithereens... His aphorisms are mental calisthenics; within a few paragraphs your mind will be back in shape and ready to somersault through jokes, innuendo, barbarism, charisma and destruction.
Paperback, 2003
$9.00$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exit Zero: Stories
Marie-Helene BertinoMolly YoungBertino is a very funny writer... Through all of Exit Zero Bertino blurs the line between writer and magician ... Few writers can revolve your mind in the space of four words. Bertino is one of them.
Paperback, 2025
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert KolkerMolly Young@rosalyster only 1% relevant to the issue at hand but just chiming in to say that Robert Kolker's book "Hidden Valley Road" IS incredible. it's about a family of 10 children in the 1970s and 6 of them were schizophrenic.
Paperback, 2021
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yoga
Emmanuel CarrèreMolly YoungCarrère’s work revolves around a practice of extreme — deranged, even — candor. ... I would gladly read a hundred pages of Carrère scrutinizing the “huge caverns” of his nostrils, lingering on the way that air prickles and tingles against their walls
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book