Priscilla Gilman 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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Priscilla Gilman is an author and book critic. Author of The Anti-Romantic Child (Harper) & The Critic's Daughter (Norton). Former English prof @ Yale & Vassar. Mother, Writer, Critic, Teacher.
Other People's Houses
Lore SegalPriscilla GilmanThe quotation on the cover of Lore Segal’s Other People’s Houses is from my father’s @newrepublic review! They became dear friends shortly after the review was published.
Paperback, 2004
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Heart the Lover
Lily KingPriscilla GilmanMight be her best book yet . . . It stands as one of the most emotionally devastating and soulfully wise novels I have ever read . . . Like all of King's fiction, Heart The Lover is literary without pretension, emotional without maudlin sentimentality
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Plot
Jean Hanff KorelitzPriscilla GilmanGreat New Book Alert- my friend @jeanhanffkoreli publishes her new novel today! Jean's books include one on which #TheUndoing was based, & THE PLOT may be her best yet! Here's the rave NYT review by wonderful @LizEgan: https://t.co/caPoNakzAG #ThePlotBook @CeladonBooks @WMEBooks
Paperback, 2022
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pride & Prejudice
Jane AustenPriscilla GilmanCome read Jane Austen with me this Fall! I'm teaching a six week class on Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice online; register here: https://t.co/NU6mKXcGgF #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki MurakamiPriscilla GilmanMurakami’s first novel in six years is also one of his best.... is a paean to books, reading... and a timely fable about how relationships, societies, and communities both protect themselves against threats and foster beauty and truth.
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James JoycePriscilla Gilman"He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music." James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, pub @OTD in 1916
Paperback, 2003
$11.00Member price:$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia WoolfPriscilla Gilman"Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life." Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1 of 2 quotes I put on my senior page in my high school yearbook) Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf, born #OnThisDay in 1882
Paperback, 1990
$10.99Member price:$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Audition
Katie KitamuraPriscilla GilmanA blisteringly incisive, coolly devastating tour de force of controlled menace... Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPriscilla Gilman"Let us, then, be what we are, & speak what we think, & in all things Keep ourselves loyal to truth." Priscilla Mullins (my great great " " " " grandmother & namesake) to John Alden, in "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was born #OTD in 1807 :)
Hardcover, 2023
$24.99Member price:$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sam: A Read with Jenna Pick
Allegra GoodmanPriscilla GilmanI reviewed Allegra Goodman's new novel, Sam, for the Boston Globe: https://t.co/VGxjBUWX80 @BGlobeBooks @bookcritics
Paperback, 2023
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book