The Cafe Irreal 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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The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly web journal/webzine that has been publishing irreal short fiction since 1998.

The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
Matthew Beaumont
In praise of flâneurs -- The Walker by Matthew Beaumont review – an urban wanderland https://t.co/Xt2qov9M6D #reading #feedly
Hardcover, 2020
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro
We're happy to hear that Guillermo del Toro and Kazuo Ishiguro are talking about an animated version of The Buried Giant! https://t.co/Skj0R1JLTT
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Amphigorey: Fifteen Books
Edward Gorey
#FridayReads I read this review of Gorey bio, then read Amphigorey: Fifteen Books, then realized Gorey was an irrealist: The Transfixing Spell of Edward Gorey’s Life in Art via @thenation https://t.co/ppCQjrVipy
Paperback, 1980
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Early Riser
Jasper Fforde
#FridayReads I'm finally getting around to reading Jasper Fforde's Early Riser in which winters are long and brutal and the satire is razor sharp. It's not quite irreal but is compellingly weird. Here's a short review: https://t.co/Sd6RwprMCK
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino
#FridayReads I'm rereading "If on a winter's night a traveler" by Italo Calvino. It's not exactly irreal, but it's challenging and entertaining, and it's a novel that celebrates readers.
Paperback, 1982
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sanchez Ventura
Simon Collings
Now online at The Cafe Irreal: "A Note Regarding Intertextuality in Simon Collings' Sanchez Ventura" by G.S. Evans -- https://t.co/JZw999T2Zu
Paperback, 2021
$12.00$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
If You'd Like to Make a Call, Please Hang Up: Stories
Bob Thurber
Issue #76 of The Cafe Irreal is now online, with stories by Umiyuri Katsuyama, Bob Thurber, E. Navarrete Diaz, Kurt Newton, Ali Hildyard, Nicole Beck, @DHarlanWilson, and Boris Glikman https://t.co/6BgsSkvoDU
Paperback, 2020
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Intuitionist
Colson Whitehead
We've been Colson Whitehead fans since The Intuitionist: https://t.co/G4wDLdLCE4 https://t.co/sa9H8ijHR5
Paperback, 2000
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book