Usman T. Malik Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A Head Full of Ghosts
Paul Tremblay
@Spirited_Gal Other recs: A Head full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes (a recent discovery) The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Paperback, 2016
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Dune
Frank Herbert
Thread on DUNE and the prophet Muhammad: 1. Through a cosmic accident that the muad'dib might have found amusing, I ended up reading Leslie Hazelton's MUHAMMAD: THE FIRST MUSLIM and listening to Frank Herbert's DUNE alongside each other this month and https://t.co/3kjikmkvq6
Paperback, 2005
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Ulysses
James Joyce
5. Ulysses, James Joyce 6. The Odyssey, Homer 7. The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe Currently he's reading Pale Fire (Nabokov) and King James Bible. Wants to read Lolita. I told him at 15 yo, but at this point that's just stupid and prudish.
Paperback, 1990
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Annihilation: A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition)
Jeff VanderMeer
@Spirited_Gal Other recs: A Head full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes (a recent discovery) The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Paperback, 2024
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In a Lonely Place
Dorothy B. Hughes
I had the privilege to talk abt two books that I really liked in 2022. I picked IN A LONELY PLACE by Dorothy B Hughes and THE ANNOTATED ARABIAN NIGHTS by @yasmineseale https://t.co/yRvw6l1D4b
Paperback, 2017
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Against Nature
Joris-Karl Huysmans
A few of the several dozen Penguin classic books he read in the last year: 1. The Quran (cover to cover in translation) -- Disclaimer: I haven't read the entire Quran 2. La Bas (The Damned), Joris-Karl Huysmans 3. Against Nature, Joris-Karl Huysmans 4. Nearly all of Borges +
Paperback, 2022
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Life: The Whole Enchilada: A Gratitude Memoir
John R. O'Neil
The latter LITTLE BIG, 35 years or more in the making, has an intro by Neil Gaiman and an afterword by Harold bloom, which locates John Crowley exactly where he has been in his writing life. https://t.co/Fxk9TnzeTS
Paperback, 2021
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The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthy
I’m not too fond of endlessly worrying abt social media. “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” — Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Paperback, 2007
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The Turnout: A Read with Jenna Pick
Megan Abbott
@Spirited_Gal Other recs: A Head full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B Hughes (a recent discovery) The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Paperback, 2022
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Paradise Lost
John Milton
That's John Milton — Paradise Lost, Book XI. Old Lahore with its original 13 gates (now reduced to 6) continued to amaze me with its stories and histories, its gossip mythology, and its colorful people.
Paperback, 2003
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