Adam Morgan 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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Adam Morgan is a culture journalist and critic. Culture journalist @Esquire & elsewhere. Writing A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (@onesignalpub / @atriabooks). Repped by @nedlovesbooks.

Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Robin D. G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley’s biography is an essential book for jazz fans looking to understand the man behind the myths. Monk’s family provided Kelley with full access to their archives, resulting in chapter after chapter of fascinating detail...
Paperback, 2010
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
End of the World House
Adrienne Celt
"I think you are referring to a conversation we had in which I said that the revisions 'practically killed me.' Which, yes. Yes, they did." Over at @BOMBmagazine, I spoke with @celtadri about her apocalyptic time-loop novel, END OF THE WORLD HOUSE. https://t.co/YiHCXZCSiC
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Moon Witch, Spider King was even better than Marlon James's first novel in the trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf from @riverheadbooks. https://t.co/8raP77V1Mb
Paperback, 2020
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ida: A Sword Among Lions
Paula J. Giddings
With the eye of a novelist and an exquisite mix of historical summary and dramatic scenes, Giddings traces Wells’s career fighting for civil rights and women’s suffrage from Memphis to Chicago.
Paperback, 2009
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Children of God
Mary Doria Russell
@chronicles_of_n @writersyndrome Ever read Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow? Wild stuff. Still haven't read The Children of God.
Paperback, 1999
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fugue State
Brian Evenson
What's the best Brian Evenson book for a beginner? Fugue State? Windeye? A Collapse of Horses? I feel like it's one of those three, right?
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Circe
Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller's CIRCE was one of the most memorable and immersive reading experiences of my adult life. https://t.co/03nmhFJkb7
Paperback, 2020
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Alec Nevala-Lee
Alec Nevala-Lee’s writing is as serene and precise as one of Fuller’s geodesic domes, and his research into never-before-seen documents makes this a genuinely groundbreaking book full of surprises.
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Circe
Madeline Miller
That part in Madeline Miller's CIRCE? When she takes the stingray god's tail and turns it into a spear to protect her son? I will remember that for the rest of my life.
Paperback, 2020
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Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks
Not nearly enough people have read Gwendolyn Brooks's only novel, Maud Martha. https://t.co/7SxsDXhTPB
Paperback, 1992
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book