Times Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
What would happen if white people woke up black? @HoumanBarekat reviews The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid https://t.co/BzcHM9bnnI
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy
Readers just can’t get enough of Charlie Mackesy. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been in the charts for 115 weeks, the longest run since digital records began. Read the full Sunday Times bestsellers list here. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sunday-times-bestsellers-list-books-reads-authors-writers-wtf0fg8v7
Hardcover, 2019
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
The Bonnie Garmus phenomenon continues to grow. After a sold-out event at the Cheltenham Literature Festival last week, her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, has returned to the bestsellers list — for its 25th week in the charts https://t.co/VtkdAhArFG
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney has done it - she’s straight to the top of the charts in the Sunday Times Bestsellers list, with 46,065 copies of Beautiful World, Where Are You flying off the shelves in a week. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sunday-times-bestsellers-list-books-reads-authors-writers-wtf0fg8v7
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke returns to the Sunday Times bestsellers list after winning the Women’s Prize for Fiction https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sunday-times-bestsellers-list-books-reads-authors-writers-wtf0fg8v7
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Goodbye cosy crime, hello pandemic dystopia: Hanya Yanagihara (of A Little Life fame) has beaten Richard Osman to the top of our fiction hardbacks bestseller list with her new novel To Paradise https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-sunday-times-bestsellers-list-books-reads-authors-writers-wtf0fg8v7
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Greek Lessons
Han Kang
The International Booker-winning author of The Vegetarian disappoints with her latest novel |✍️ Claire Lowdon https://t.co/ajQgdBcouQ
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Pulitzer-winner Anthony Doerr champions the printed word in a new novel. But are his morals enough to make us read on, asks @HoumanBarekat https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cloud-cuckoo-land-by-anthony-doerr-review-9nn5wr329
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fairy Tale
Stephen King
7. Fairy Tale by @StephenKing Sep 6, Hodder & Stoughton A grief-stricken teenager with an alcoholic dad tangles with an old recluse who owns a big, sweet dog and a creepy, locked-up shed. It’s Stephen King, so what could possibly go wrong — or get supernatural?
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
With its singing mice, bats as loud as ambulances and catfish covered in taste buds, Ed Yong’s An Immense World blew away our reviewer @j_mcconnachie a few weeks ago — and it’s jumped straight into the bestsellers list upon publication https://t.co/VtkdAhArFG
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book