David Foster Wallace and Gromit 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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Carmen Dog
Carol Emshwiller@ginathechung & i am biased, because we published the reprint, but you might like Carol Emshwiller too (all of her, but Carmen Dog is a good starting place)
Paperback, 2004
$14.00Member price:$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Scorpio Races
Maggie Stiefvater@dethb1rd1960 Maggie Stiefvater’s The Scorpio Races, Christi Nogle’s The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, and Megan Giddings’s The Women Could Fly.
Paperback, 2013
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tooth and Claw
Jo Walton@gregfallis @doctorow @naominovik Novik is always terrific. There’s at least one other dragon-on-the-cover book that is worth breaking the tule for: Jo Walton’s Tooth and Claw, which is a Trollope novel but with dragons.
Paperback, 2009
$23.99Member price:$11.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Claire Vaye Watkins@morganmpage I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Paperback, 2022
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories
Laura Van Den Berg@JamilJanKochai K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want, American Estrangement by Said Sayrafiezadeh, Mariana Enriquez’s collections, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg, Aoko Matsuda’s Where the Wild Ladies Are. Among others!
Paperback, 2021
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fever House
Keith Rosson@keith_rosson I literally just took my dog for a walk so that I could think about how to write a blurb for FEVER HOUSE, which is so great! Wish I could recommend your own novel to you.
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This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub@psychopompcom Have you read Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow? And if you can bear a pandemic novel, I loved Jim Shepherd's Phase Six. Molly Gloss's Wild Life isn't time travel, but it has a kind of Emily St. John Mandel feel to it.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wrestler's Cruel Study
Stephen Dobyns@jamescappio @scarthomas Have you read Stephen Dobyns’s The Wrestler’s Cruel Study? Or Kevin Brockmeier’s The Ghost Variations? Helen Oyeyemi’s noves, Ali Smith, and Mat Jphnson’s Pym also good possibilities
Paperback, 2013
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Straight Man
Richard RussoJust realized this is based on my favorite Richard Russo nove, Straight Man. 😍 https://t.co/rxEKkJkp71
Paperback, 1998
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
John: A Prophetic Revelation
Stephen Hill@CharlesFinch Stephen Graham Jones, Joe Hill’s first collection, Livia Llewellyn, Victor LaValle, Nathan Ballingrud, John Langan, Laird Barron, Robert Shearman’s coll Remember Why You Fear Me, Cassandra Khaw, many Ellen Datlow anthologies, classic anthology The Dark Descent, ed Hartwell.
Paperback, 2019
$25.30Member price:$12.65 + Free shipping50% off your first book