N. K. Jemisin 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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N.K. Jemisin is a science fiction and fantasy author. SFF writer. She/her. I talk more on Tumblr these days.

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Genevieve Valentine
It is a story set in a post-apocalyptic world and focusing on a circus of mechanical and partially mechanical people, and just exploring their lives and their interactions with this world. Beautifully written. Just haunting prose.
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Witch King
Martha Wells
Martha Wells is consistently one of my favorite authors. She’s got a new book coming called “The Witch King” that I absolutely loved. It should be out in a few months or so.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
It’s a systemic look at how cities function and why city design and its actual application is often detrimental to the goals that city planners have in mind. It's... a really interesting way of reconsidering how cities operate and ways in which we might improve them...
Paperback, 1992
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century
Janet Cheatham Bell
My auntie's newest book is out! I GOT TO BLURB MY AUNTIE'S BOOK!! I loved these books growing up; all sorts of little profundities in there. Check it out: #BUCKETLIST #achievementunlocked https://t.co/LEIFc6ga8Y
Hardcover, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Human
Zack Jordan
Yes! The Last Human (in a Crowded Galaxy) by Zack Jordan. I only read a few chapters but loved them, and now I can read more -- thanks to the folks who replied! https://t.co/CUHb6HBMcQ
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
RT @orbitbooks: N. K. Jemisin's The City We Became is out in paperback in the UK today! Don't miss your chance to get your hands on this…
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
7: 17: Seven Seventeen
Lasirc John
Pssst! Your periodic reminder that there are 5 issues of FAR SECTOR out now, and you can preorder #6! Many comic book shops will mail floppies, plus there's always digital! (Image is cover of #7, by @_pryce14! Because everybody needs a little [giant] Jobot in their lives.) https://t.co/Gfe2OtJr6O
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat
After a lifetime of food defined by what it didn’t have, this book is a revelation–it’s less about a specific recipe from the book than it was about changing my relationship to ingredients and preparation.
Hardcover, 2017
$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Master of Djinn
P. Djèlí Clark
RT @orbitbooks: A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark is out NEXT WEEK! When you get your hands on a physical copy make sure you try out the…
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book