The TLS 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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![Book Cover for: The Crucible, Arthur Miller](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780142437339.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751440)
The Crucible
Arthur Miller![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'Ultimately, on this account, The Crucible’s middle acts remain its most tense and engaging. And it is here that the secret of the play’s durability is revealed, in the fatal claustrophobia that Arthur Miller was so adept at capturing.' https://t.co/1FC9iRYyoB
Paperback, 2003
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: A Morbid Taste for Bones, Ellis Peters](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781504001939.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709847780)
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'Many of the novel’s chapter titles are direct references to exemplars of the genre, such as 'The Crooked House' (Agatha Christie), 'The Lady in the Lake' (Raymond Chandler) and 'A Morbid Taste for Bones' (Ellis Peters).' https://t.co/JVrMfmYfVw
Paperback, 2014
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Wandering Souls, Cecile Pin](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250863461.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751440)
Wandering Souls
Cecile Pin![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'She feels 'haunted', while Pin shows how any fresh injustice suffered by members of a diaspora can be felt as pain by the individual.' https://t.co/NI1AqgqdV7
Hardcover, 2023
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Flowers of Buffoonery, Osamu Dazai](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780811234542.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751440)
The Flowers of Buffoonery
Osamu Dazai![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'His curiosity leads him to learn the Kappas’ language and investigate their customs. The children, when still in the womb, are asked if they actually want to be born.' https://t.co/VMKJf3raBM
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781250872418.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751440)
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'Yiyun Li begins her new novel, The Book of Goose, by conjuring a knife – sharp enough to sever an umbilical cord, wound a friend or slice through the pages of a book.' https://t.co/hTdWPcLehw
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Avalon, Nell Zink](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593468159.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709847467)
Avalon
Nell Zink![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'That the dreadful Peter is so convincing to the naive Bran feels true enough to life, but, as the story develops, it opens a chasm between her and the reader.' https://t.co/QdNTVd12Ye
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780486282114.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1717391043)
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'More students read the poetry of Christina Rossetti than that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; mention 'Shelley' in a classroom and students are as likely to think of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as the work of her husband, Percy Bysshe.' (@dlbirch1) https://t.co/bDbE4pb6D0
Paperback, 1994
$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Lapvona, Ottessa Moshfegh](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780593300282.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709848717)
Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'It is the sort of book that makes you wish you could have been there when the manuscript landed at the publishing house. What did they make of it, really, all those agents and editors and publicists?' Claire Lowdon on Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh https://t.co/Wlt5aKpgUA
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Aliss at the Fire, Jon Fosse](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781564785732.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725751440)
Aliss at the Fire
Jon Fosse![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'In Aliss there are two Asles; in Septology there is one, or two, depending on your interpretation. One of those Asles has a neighbour called Åsleik, and was married to Ales. And Aliss here isn’t really Aliss: she is Ales too.' (@george_berridge) https://t.co/ft0voKe22Q
Paperback, 2010
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The New Life, Tom Crewe](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781668000847.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1713136706)
The New Life
Tom Crewe![The TLS](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/23a71b01-75ff-49ee-b35e-edd12f41af34.webp)
'Just as the self is inescapable, Crewe shows how society’s ingrained prejudices are impossible to outpace.' https://t.co/IoTiMAVhyg
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book