Sandra Newman 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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Author of various novels: JULIA, THE MEN, THE HEAVENS, THE COUNTRY OF ICE CREAM STAR, etc. Also co-author of HOW NOT TO WRITE A NOVEL. She/they
![Book Cover for: Blue Ruin, Hari Kunzru](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593801376.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1710235565)
Blue Ruin
Hari Kunzru![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Blue Ruin is bracingly intelligent and often just plain beautiful. It’s a reminder that fiction, at its best, is a place to encounter new experiences... Kunzru is known for ambitious novels that bring politics to rich, imaginative life; Blue Ruin shows him at the top of his game.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Rift, Nina Allan](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781785650376.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
The Rift
Nina Allan![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Really delighted with this review of The Men from the great Nina Allan, whose amazing books The Rift and The Race were influences on it (which she would have no way of knowing, tbc, it just struck me that this is the case) https://t.co/5KI4IrdHJf
Out of stock
![Book Cover for: The Race, Nina Allan](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781785650468.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709844179)
The Race
Nina Allan![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Really delighted with this review of The Men from the great Nina Allan, whose amazing books The Rift and The Race were influences on it (which she would have no way of knowing, tbc, it just struck me that this is the case) https://t.co/5KI4IrdHJf
Paperback, Mass Market, 2017
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781501143335.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
@nnnnnicolas This is brilliantly discussed in David Graeber's BULLSHIT JOBS, which is a really fun and fascinating read in general. Any job that has some purpose is less emotionally wearing, even if it's badly paid and exhausting and dangerous.
Paperback, 2019
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Heart in Winter, Kevin Barry](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780385550598.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1720999147)
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O'Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce... inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Fight, Norman Mailer](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780812986129.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
The Fight
Norman Mailer![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
"The fight was later used as evidence in his case against Dennis Hopper, who claimed Rip attacked him with a knife … Rip won his case on the claim that 'he could not have possibly killed Hopper as he was, at the time, on the set of Maidstone trying to kill Norman Mailer.'"
Paperback, 2013
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: London Fields, Martin Amis](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780679730347.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
London Fields
Martin Amis![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
I couldn't sleep that night and stayed up all night reading London Fields by Martin Amis. I still dislike Martin Amis's writing with the bleakness I felt for the frightened burglar and the gun and the heroin and the insomnia.
Paperback, 1991
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Hotel Neversink, Adam O'Fallon Price](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781947793347.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
The Hotel Neversink
Adam O'Fallon Price![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Book recommendation: @AdamOPrice's THE HOTEL NEVERSINK. A madly inventive novel that follows a mysterious series of murders through several generations of a family who own and run a Borscht Belt resort. Just the coolest book I've read in a long time. https://tinhouse.com/book/the-hotel-neversink/
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780062409867.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Might fuck around and tweet out my "Top two Harper Lee novels" with Go Set a Watchman at number one. See if the fish are biting today
Paperback, 2016
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Room 101, Mary T. Wilkinson](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781981199099.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752585)
Room 101
Mary T. Wilkinson![Sandra Newman](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/a4168756-155a-4ff6-a726-d50c097dfd8d.webp)
Working on my Orwell book and I'm increasingly haunted by the thought that Room 101 is actually an introductory course about rooms
Paperback, 2017
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book