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Book Cover for: A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay

A Head Full of Ghosts

Paul Tremblay
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@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

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Dune

Frank Herbert
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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
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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
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@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
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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
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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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Book Cover for: Life: The Whole Enchilada: A Gratitude Memoir, John R. O'Neil

Life: The Whole Enchilada: A Gratitude Memoir

John R. O'Neil
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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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Book Cover for: The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Cormac McCarthy

The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner

Cormac McCarthy
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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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Book Cover for: The Turnout: A Read with Jenna Pick, Megan Abbott

The Turnout: A Read with Jenna Pick

Megan Abbott
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@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

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Paradise Lost

John Milton
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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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