Rebecca F. Kuang Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Rebecca F. Kuang is a writer. PhD @Yale/Marshall Scholar/sinophone + asian american lit/The Poppy War trilogy/BABEL: AN ARCANE HISTORY/YELLOWFACE out now

The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
i've been given permission to share, so please enjoy this jaw-dropping illustration from the @SubPress special limited edition of THE POPPY WAR, which goes live for order next month! it features an all new cover, design, and illustrations. art by the immensely talented @awanqi https://t.co/P7mie6jY1o
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Burning God
R. F. Kuang
🎊 holiday season means giveaways!!!🎊 I’m giving out two sets of THE BURNING GOD and the arc of KAIKEYI by @VaishnaWrites, a fascinating mythic retelling that debuts next year - both signed and personalized to the winner. RT and follow @VaishnaWrites to enter! https://t.co/VBd5fuTjIp
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Idiot
Elif Batuman
me, i will be snagging Elif Batuman's EITHER/OR because it's the sequel to one of my favorite books of all time (THE IDIOT) and it comes out right in time for my birthday 🥰 https://t.co/4WPvlEg7yU
Paperback, 2018
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
I’m now adoring The Short stories of Jorge Luis Borges translated by Andrew Hurley – they are such fun little philosophical puzzle boxes that keep me thinking long after I’ve closed the book.
Paperback, 1999
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel
🎊 holiday season means giveaways!!!🎊 I’m giving out two sets of THE BURNING GOD and the arc of KAIKEYI by @VaishnaWrites, a fascinating mythic retelling that debuts next year - both signed and personalized to the winner. RT and follow @VaishnaWrites to enter! https://t.co/VBd5fuTjIp
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson
recommend me some litfic books that read the way a Wes Anderson film feels! (yeah i just saw The French Dispatch and looooved it)
Hardcover, 2021
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dragon Republic
R. F. Kuang
aww! i know THE DRAGON REPUBLIC went back to print two weeks ago (along with BABEL, which is already in its fourth printing!) one of those good+bad problems when your publisher is struggling to keep the books on shelves 😅 i hope it's restocked now and that you find your copy... https://t.co/DDHmRAxo5g
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
(am reading Silvia Federici's "Caliban and the Witch" for a seminar on colonial reproduction + domesticity. laying the groundwork with readings on social reproduction and primitive accumulation! highly recommend, good times)
Paperback, 2004
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
reading Katie Kitamura’s INTIMACIES on the train to our next tour stop. it’s wonderful (and very appropriate for all the questions swirling in my head right now!) nothing better than a sunny day, a quiet train, and a deeply absorbing book ❤️ see you soon, York
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s
Krystyn R. Moon
we really do enjoy dropping new book news from me in the most chaotic way possible. YELLOWFACE is out summer 2023 😈😌 https://twitter.com/HarperFiction/status/1537393931331190787
Paperback, 2004
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book