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S.A.Cosby 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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S.A. Cosby is a crime writer. Best selling international award winning author of RAZORBLADE TEARS,BLACKTOP WASTELAND. part-time miscreant. Country as Hell bring out the olives!!

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Book Cover for: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara
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The discourse around Hanya Yanagihara is fascinating.......the writer as lightning rod....full disclosure I haven't read To Paradise yet but I did read A Little Life ....but its not her work that interests me so much as her cult of personality.... https://t.co/mYMJsHGgop

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Don't Know Tough, Eli Cranor

Don't Know Tough

Eli Cranor
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Eli Cranor is about to have the best one two punch in rural noir in a long time. DON'T KNOW TOUGH and now OZARK DOGS Son putting in that work....

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Southern Fiction, Tema Stauffer

Southern Fiction

Tema Stauffer
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@aceatkins is one of the great gentlemen of Southern Fiction. I'm so excited to see what he has in store for us in this new book He writes like Gregg Allman collaborated with William Gay ... https://twitter.com/aceatkins/status/1512431499592835077

Hardcover, 2022

$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ghost Story, Peter Straub

Ghost Story

Peter Straub
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Peter Straub was an incredibly versatile literate writer who could work in any genre. GHOST STORY may be his seminal work but I always thought KOKO was the most terrifying serial killer book since Red Dragon RIP Scribe 😔 https://t.co/1IemtILQX0

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Devil Takes You Home, Gabino Iglesias

The Devil Takes You Home

Gabino Iglesias
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Well im done talking about that unfortunate incident with JCO...id rather give yall some more book recs .. So.. @YasAWriter They Come At Knight -international assassin from the motherland @Gabino_Iglesias The Devil Takes You Home. Harrowing crime/horror fiction

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: New Yorked, Rob Hart

New Yorked

Rob Hart
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I first met @robwhart at a Noir At the Bar in Washington DC where he read a wonderfully dark story called "I Am Pretty Princess ". I was a huge fan of his Ash McKenna series and he kindly signed my copy of New Yorked and gave me some good advice that I ignored to my own detriment

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Book Cover for: Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen

Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen
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Finished CROSSROADS by Jonathan Franzen. I don't think anyone can deny that Franzen is a wordsmith. His prose is prickly and alive and uncomfortable in the best way possible... I think this book is less about each individual character than a mindset that Franzen is examining

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Low Desert: Gangster Stories, Tod Goldberg

The Low Desert: Gangster Stories

Tod Goldberg
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He doesn't need my endorsement but @todgoldberg writes some of the most interesting and unique crime stories around. His collection The Low Desert is a stellar book. Come for the clowns Stay for the social commentary

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen
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"This is who I am, this is everything I know, this is my best, this is the best I can do right now." - Bruce Springsteen talking about Born To Run I feel this in my bones 😭

Paperback, 2017

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories, Alice Walker

The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart: Stories

Alice Walker
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@articul8madness @jasonzchristie I grew up dirt floor poor in a single wide trailer. I've been rejected Hundreds of times. Big 5 publisher told me for years no one was interested in rural fiction with black leads . But I knew there was a place for these stories Ppl like Ernest J Gaines and Alice Walker-

Paperback, 2001

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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