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
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
Wuthering Heights
Emily BrontePriscilla GilmanHappy Birthday to the author of Wuthering Heights, one of my favorite novels to read, teach, and reflect on. Emily Bronte was born on this day in 1818! #EmilyBronte #thebrontes #wutheringheights https://t.co/HUaCMIiEPl
Paperback, 2017
$14.56Member price:$7.28 + 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 :)
Paperback, 2023
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + 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
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book