Nate Brown 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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Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Baltimore! Tonight at @TheIvyBookshop, one of my favorite writers and people, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, will read from her new novel TAKE MY HAND. Check it. @Dolen https://t.co/Dh1xkpl9nH
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
Grace Paley
@vincentscarpa I really like "The Cure" and "The Country Husband." So many of his other stories make me wish I were reading William Maxwell or Grace Paley instead.
Paperback, 1985
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
(2/2): Find Me - Laura van den Berg Severance - Ling Ma Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam Basically, we’re looking at contemporary works that involve utopias, cacotopias, and dystopias. Fun stuff!
Paperback, 2021
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Force of Such Beauty
Barbara Bourland
Happy pub day to Barbara Bourland, a novelist pal who writes some seriously great novels. The Force of Such Beauty is a fairy tale, of a sort, and is one hell of an indictment of global capital, celebrity culture, and misogynistic government policy. https://t.co/AvKfFXQD9I
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Arcadia
Lauren Groff
Readings (1/2): San Junipero (screening + teleplay) - Charlie Brooker Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang Arcadia - Lauren Groff Zone One - Colson Whitehead Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2016
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Readings (1/2): San Junipero (screening + teleplay) - Charlie Brooker Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang Arcadia - Lauren Groff Zone One - Colson Whitehead Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Zone One
Colson Whitehead
Readings (1/2): San Junipero (screening + teleplay) - Charlie Brooker Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang Arcadia - Lauren Groff Zone One - Colson Whitehead Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback, 2012
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Station Eleven: A Novel (National Book Award Finalist)
Emily St John Mandel
(2/2): Find Me - Laura van den Berg Severance - Ling Ma Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam Basically, we’re looking at contemporary works that involve utopias, cacotopias, and dystopias. Fun stuff!
Paperback, 2015
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trouble: Stories
Patrick Somerville
@SamSamAllingham Patrick Somerville’s “English Cousin” and “Trouble and the Shadowy Deathblow” are both freaking hilarious. Danielle Evans is very funny, but her stories also kick you hard in the face. Lilian Li’s “Coach Ray” has an extremely funny, very memorable ending.
Paperback, 2006
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Find Me
Laura Van Den Berg
(2/2): Find Me - Laura van den Berg Severance - Ling Ma Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam Basically, we’re looking at contemporary works that involve utopias, cacotopias, and dystopias. Fun stuff!
Paperback, 2016
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book