Times Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidWhat would happen if white people woke up black? @HoumanBarekat reviews The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid https://t.co/BzcHM9bnnI
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie MackesyReaders 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
$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie GarmusThe 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
$29.00Member price:$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneySally 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
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lord of the Flies
William GoldingOf the books published in the immediate aftermath of her accession, the most influential on the world’s imagination was surely JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The best? Hard, I think, to look past William Golding’s Lord of the Flies
Paperback, 2003
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Piranesi
Susanna ClarkePiranesi 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
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaGoodbye 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
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Greek Lessons
Han KangThe International Booker-winning author of The Vegetarian disappoints with her latest novel |✍️ Claire Lowdon https://t.co/ajQgdBcouQ
Paperback, 2024
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony DoerrPulitzer-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
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fairy Tale
Stephen King7. 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
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book