Victor LaValle Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Victor La Valle is a horror novelist. You on point, Tip? All the time, Phife. BOOKS: Lone Women; TV: The Changeling; COMICS: Sabretooth War

Hotel Du Lac: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
Anita Brookner
@rachsyme Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner.
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston *demolishing* Alain Locke after he panned Their Eyes Were Watching God is a masterpiece. From: You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays. https://t.co/QbNQRDa8t0
Paperback, 2006
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Destroyer: The Bad Company Book 5
Craig Martelle
We were so lucky to have Micaela’s covers in every issue of Destroyer. Check out this thread of her brilliant art. https://twitter.com/DawnMicaela/status/1460427807960363009
Paperback, 2019
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mirror Made of Rain
Naheed Phiroze Patel
Choosing to celebrate the good things when they arise. Debut novel alert. MIRROR MADE OF RAIN by @NaheedPhiroze Funny, heart wrenching, complex and elegantly written. A book that should be celebrated and widely read. https://twitter.com/unnamedpress/status/1526560166509944832
Hardcover, 2022
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte Bronte
Such a pleasure talking with Maris about Lone Women, American history and Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, too. https://t.co/ccikc52par
Hardcover, 2018
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Things
Mat Johnson
The paperback for Mat Johnson’s INVISIBLE THINGS drops today. Come see him @booksaremagicbk in two weeks. I will be dropping rose petals at his feet as he approaches the mic. https://t.co/OCv4LYJPoR
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Strange
Nathan Ballingrud
Happy pub day to two writers I admire so much. Picked up my copies today. THE STRANGE by Nathan Ballingrud & THE UNDERTOW by Jeff Sharlet. Pick them both up! @NBallingrud @JeffSharlet https://t.co/rvL8VHp16B
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor Lavalle
I’ve never had a book published as a paperback first *and then* published as a hardcover. Til now. THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM Gorgeous hardcover with a brand new afterword. https://t.co/YB6mcq1RUk
Paperback, 2016
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan
I’m thrilled, and moved, when writers spend time writing about work... Stewart O’Nan’s “Last Night at the Lobster” is a book I teach regularly for the way he makes work (at a Red Lobster that’s closing down) into something grand and insightful.
Paperback, 2008
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Corregidora
Gayl Jones
I will say not enough people have heard of it: “Corregidora,” by Gayl Jones. A masterpiece.
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book