Tobias Carroll Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Tobias Carroll is a novelist and essayist. Team @vol1brooklyn/@wwborders. EX-MEMBERS (@astrophil_press), POLITICAL SIGN, TRANSITORY, REEL @TobiasCarroll@zirk.us | @tobiascarroll.bsky.social He/him

Culture: The Story of Us, from Cave Art to K-Pop
Martin Puchner
At @InsideHook, I talked with Martin Puchner about his new cultural history CULTURE, out now from @wwnorton. https://t.co/G0FLTf4bJN
Paperback, 2024
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Out There: Stories
Kate Folk
The way that Folk describes the dynamics of a small group—with shifting allegiances and power struggles—turns what could feel twee into something thoroughly feral. It’s par for the course in this immersive, chilling debut.
Paperback, 2022
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul Newman
Over the course of five years, Paul Newman took part in an extensive oral history project that found him looking back over his life ... Those recordings form the basis for this new memoir ... It’s a detailed, honest look at a singular life.
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
$35.99Member price:$35.99 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Molly McGhee
Do you like your workplace novels with a heady amount of surrealism? If so, might we direct your attention to Molly McGhee’s debut... As almost any narrative about entering the world of dreams… the dreamscape comes with plenty of unnerving components of its own…
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00Member price:$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Sam Tanenhaus
....basically the AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR of the Know Your Enemy cinematic universe.
Hardcover, 2025
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood
Maureen Ryan
Reports of hostile workplaces and abuses of power on film and television sets are becoming more numerous, suggesting a growing candor in the industry. With this look at the industry’s structural flaws, author Maureen Ryan brings an impressive array of experience to the subject.
Paperback, 2024
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias
Over at @tordotcom, I wrote about @Gabino_Iglesias's THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a novel that gave me serious KILL LIST vibes. (Which is to say that I dug it tremendously.) https://t.co/S3r11styst
Paperback, 2023
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
@mollytempleton Before high school, I'm totally blanking. In high school, the only ones that are coming to mind are Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Ayn Rand's Anthem.
Paperback, 2005
$11.00Member price:$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Alan Heathcock
At @tordotcom, I wrote about Alan Heathcock's new novel, which I had complicated feelings about. https://t.co/YuGnOXvUKB
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sakina's Kiss
Vivek Shanbhag
Shanbhag’s novel juxtaposes past and present as it traces the history of one family and chronicles its antihero’s moral tests...Characters debate morality, religion, and politics, and there’s an increasing sense of menace as bad memories and tactile threats close in.
Paperback, 2025
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book