Max Porter Recommends #YourNextBook
By Burley Fisher Books
Max Porter Recommends #YourNextBook
By Burley Fisher Books
Way back in March when we were biking books around E8, some of our favourite writers and publishers stepped up as guest booksellers on Twitter, making recommendations for #YourNextBook based on something you'd recently read and loved.
Max Porter (Lanny, Grief Is the Thing With Feathers) brought his insatiable knowledge of literally everything about books to a wild, unstoppable Twitter thread that we'll unroll here.
These are Max's recommendations – check the annotations to see which recent read he was responding to & why he thinks you'll love these books.
Sea Monsters
Chloe Aridjis
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends Chloe Aridjis' novel if you liked… All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg (sadly out of print)
The Ancient Woods of Helford River
Oliver Rackham
£15.00 £14.25Max recommends Oliver Rackham's "oh so good and wise and fascinating" study of the last ancient British coastal woods if you liked… Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health: A journey into the heartland of psychiatry
Nathan Filer
£10.99 £10.44Max recommends award-winning writer Nathan Filer's study if you liked… Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
Surge
Jay Bernard
£12.99 £12.34Max recommends "best book of last year (2019)" if you liked… Artful by Ali Smith
Erato
Deryn Rees-Jones
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends Deryn Rees-Jones' evocative poetry if you liked… At the Source by Gillian Clarke
The Quarry: Essays
Buffalo) Howe Susan (State University of New York
£12.99Max recommends *anything* by Susan Howe (these essays are a good place to start) if you liked… Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger
Now, Now, Louison
Jean Fremon
£12.00 £11.40Max recommends Jean Frémon's meditation if you liked… Charlotte by David Foenkinos
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Zachary Mason
£10.99 £10.44Max recommends Zachary Mason's haunting of the classics if you liked… Circe by Madeline Miller
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi (Y) Kawakami
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends Hiromo Kawakami's "gorgeous book" if you liked… Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Lost Property
Laura Beatty
£8.99 £8.54Max recommends this "strange and brilliant" novel if you liked… Laura Beatty's Darkling
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
Julia Blackburn
£25.00Max recommends Julia Blackburn's travel in time if you liked… Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
Sisters
DAISY JOHNSON
£14.99Max recommends Sisters if you liked… Daisy Johnson's previous novel, Everything Under
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
£14.99 £14.24Max recommends Cleanness as "a masterpiece [by] one of the greatest prose stylists alive" if you liked… Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
Independent People
Halldor Laxness
£10.99 £10.44Max recommends Halldor Laxness' "mighty mighty work of art, will keep your busy for a few days" if you liked… Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Murmur
Will Eaves
£8.99 £8.54Max recommends "next level literary artistry" of Murmur if you liked… Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
£10.99 £10.44Max recommends Jericho Brown's scorching poetry if you liked… Homie by Danez Smith
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends a trip with Ann Patchett if you liked… House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe
The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill
John Fante
£16.99 £16.14Max recommends catching up with Bandini if you liked… Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Shapeless Unease: ‘A small miracle of a book’ – Nathan Flier
Samantha Harvey
£12.99 £12.08Max recommends Harvey's incisive memoir if you liked… In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe
Permission
Saskia Vogel
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends Vogel's debut if you liked… In the Fold by Rachel Cusk
Eileen: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
Ottessa Moshfegh
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends Booker shortlistee Eileen if you liked… Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends dipping into Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's weird world if you liked… Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
£8.99"For 'how does anyone write that well?' feelings" Max recommends Train Dreams if you liked… On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Mixed-race Superman
Will Harris
£6.00 £5.70Max recommends the "masterful" Mixed-Race Superman if you liked… Will Harris' poetry collection, Rendang
Sudden Traveller: Winner of the BBC National Short Story Award
Sarah (Author) Hall
£8.99 £8.54Max recommends this "exquisite" collection from the Sunday Times Short Story award winner if you liked… Salt Slow by Julia Armfield
Vertigo & Ghost
Fiona Benson
£10.00 £9.50Max recommends this as a follow-up if you liked… The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson: "Ooooof, what a book"
Known and Strange Things
Teju Cole
£14.99 £14.24Max recommends Teju Cole's essays as "magnificent. Very good on Baldwin" if you liked… The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
£8.99 £8.54"Possibly my favourite novel." Max recommends Veisaas' chilly classic if you liked… The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Fracture
Andres Neuman
£14.99Max recommends Neuman's multifaceted memory work if you liked… The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Years - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Annie Ernaux
£13.99 £13.29Max recommends this "flawless" follow up if you liked… The Other Name: Septology I-II by Jon Fosse
Once Upon a River: The Sunday Times bestseller
Diane Setterfield
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends "great engaging addicting distraction reading" if you liked… The Overstory by Richard Powers
A Good Enough Mother
Bev Thomas
£8.99 £8.54Max recommends this feminist chiller if you liked… The Power by Naomi Alderman
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends getting started on Mantel's trilogy if you liked… The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
£9.99 £9.49Max recommends "a classic" if you liked… Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Flame Alphabet
Ben Marcus
£9.99 £9.49"Blends headfuckery with tenderness in a really good way." Max recommends all of Ben Marcus if you liked… Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
Big thanks again to the amazing Max Porter. Check our Twitter @burleyfisher for upcoming Guest Booksellers to get #YourNextBook