Paul John Nelson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Paul John Nelson on XPhilosophy 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 FaulknerI 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
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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 BazterricaTender 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
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Allegiant
Veronica RothAfter 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
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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 FoucaultI haven’t read Michel Foucault in awhile. Herculine Barbin is next for me.
Paperback, 1980
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poster Girl
Veronica RothAfter 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
$29.99Member price:$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
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book