Paul John Nelson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Philosophy enthusiast, specifically Foucault. Lover of sadness and dystopian heroine tropes. Author of ‘the girl from the mire’ trilogy. They/Them

The Sound and the Fury: The Complete, Definitive Edition
William Faulkner
I highly recommend Faulkner’s masterpiece, The Sound and The Fury. It is devastating. I love Caddy! It’s not a book that should be read once.
Paperback, 1991
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The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthy
@theCIofficial I think The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It’s so desolate and human and metaphorical. I think that the unknown event is the equivalent of a Judge Holden or a Chigurh.
Paperback, 2007
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Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica is absolutely horrific! I highly recommend this book. The content and the wording are chilling. And that ending…wow! #WritingCommunity
Paperback, 2020
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Allegiant
Veronica Roth
After Allegiant, I swore that I’d never read another Veronica Roth book. But here I am borrowing Poster Girl from the library…am I a sucker? Sure.
Paperback, 2016
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Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
@thetaoishway The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Franny and Zooey by Salinger is a close second.
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
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Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
Michel Foucault
I haven’t read Michel Foucault in awhile. Herculine Barbin is next for me.
Paperback, 1980
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Poster Girl
Veronica Roth
After Allegiant, I swore that I’d never read another Veronica Roth book. But here I am borrowing Poster Girl from the library…am I a sucker? Sure.
Paperback, Large Print, 2022
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crash: Deluxe Edition
J. G. Ballard
@annaabgarowicz Yesterday. I’m trying to get through Ballard’s Crash and Foucault’s history of sexuality vol 2. Since I’m in writing mode, it’s difficult to want to read.
Hardcover, 2019
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