These are our Twitter followers’ recommendations for January this new year. We hope you find something good in here for your reading pleasure!
You can join in on next month’s Litro Library reader recommendations too. Just tweet a photo of the book you’re currently reading and would recommend, along with a brief description, to @litromagazine with the hashtag #litrolib.
“Tom-All-Alone’s by Lynn Shepherd: a lean, clever and dark Bleak House remake.” —@redbreastedbird
“Mo Said She Was Quirky: James Kelman. Slightly delusional woman frets about disappeared brother.” —@IanShine
“Into the Silence, Wade Davis, absorbing & sad story of much more than just Mallory on Everest.” —@EmilyCleaver
“The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Nothing happens, up a mountain. Thrillingly static.” —@Tiny_Camels
“The Old Ways by R. Macfarlane. Wanderer waxes literary around the UK. Immersive & intelligent.” —@beckyayre
“Carol Shields: Unless. A woman writer writes about a woman writer writing about a woman.” —@IanShine
“Always inspirational.” —@patrickdunne
“Reading Cassandra Parkin’s New World Fairy Tales, brilliant twists on old tales”. —@EmilyCleaver
“First Novel by N. Royle. (Meta)fictional look at creative writing courses. Dark. Funny.” —@danpowfiction
“currently digging on Bolaño – The Savage Detectives.” —@S_Taradash
“The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Moving and true and inspiration for innovators”. —@patrickedunne
“Surprise Christmas gift in the form of Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone. The first, longest and best British mystery”. —@Na7hanGood
“I just finished reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road & I’d recommend it to anyone – bleak but beautiful.” —@CarolineC1988
“Emperors of Dream. by Mike Jay, a study of the birth & use of today’s (mostly) illegal highs coke, hash, heroin/op”. —@KatyDarbyWriter
“Reperfusion by ARH. A book in which reality surges up then falls to pieces.” —@wps&b
“ok a real one. Perec – La Disparition, a detective novel with something nauseatingly missing.” —@wsp&b
Have a look at January’s #litrolib picks, up on the site now – and don’t forget to keep submitting your own! http://t.co/eVW0CW0x
Litro Library: January 2013 | Litro http://t.co/B1pEE0vd