Ron Charles 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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Creatures of Passage
Morowa Yejidé
RT @dataylor1: Novelist Morowa Yejidé and Edward P. Jones talk about her novel Creatures of Passage, and re-creating a vanishing city. My p…
Hardcover, 2021
$41.95$20.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Twain Mark
There is, apparently, no statute of limitations on spoilers. Today, a Gentle Reader takes us to task for incidentally revealing the endings of Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” and Leo Tolstoy's “War and Peace.” https://t.co/vDopclahhE
Paperback, 2014
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Loot
Tania James
James is a master miniaturist who can create the illusion of a saga in a chapter. And she’s not afraid to radically reset the novel’s place and tone. Her pages feel as full as a 19th-century bildungsroman, with collapsing kingdoms, sailing ships and elaborate schemes.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Attack of the Black Rectangles
A. S. King
I’ve read *a lot* of smart takes on censorship this year, but honestly the best thing I’ve run across recently is a new middle grade novel from @Scholastic called “Attack of the Black Rectangles,” by @AS_King. More in today's newsletter: https://t.co/x4SYB1L49Z
Hardcover, 2022
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Tremor
Teju Cole
Cole continues to demonstrate just how elastic a novel can be and how trenchant he is. His book crosses national boundaries just as confidently as it crosses literary ones... To read some of these chapters is to see the essay form in its most elegiac, elastic and epiphanic mode.
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon's "Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone" debuts at No. 1 on the indie bookstore bestseller list. https://t.co/pnOMcA4IYB
Paperback, 2022
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
Last week, 19-year-old Leila Mottley released her debut novel, “Nightcrawling,” with @AAKnopf. And then @Oprah picked it for her book club. And now it's on the bestseller list. And damn if it isn't also really good.... https://t.co/NgBiDfAiXG
Paperback, 2023
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Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick
Sarah Winman
I’m not promising too much by claiming that Sarah Winman’s “Still Life” is a tonic for wanderlust and a cure for loneliness. It's so damn lovely. https://t.co/lCpK0mMzrL
Paperback, 2022
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The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Like a latter-day Edith Wharton, Korelitz simultaneously mocks and embraces these upper-class combatants. Other readers will hear in this vivisection of a dysfunctional family a Franzenesque attention to the great forces pulsing through American culture.
Paperback, 2023
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The Unfolding
A. M. Homes
The dialogue in these cringingly hilarious scenes sparks off the page with such vibrancy that I felt as if I were in the room where it happened.
Paperback, 2023
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