Alexandra Petri 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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Alexandra Petri is a humorist and newspaper columnist. Blogs & columns for @WashingtonPost. No pun is beneath me. AP’s US HISTORY out 4/11! https://t.co/stq1FbzRa8

4 books

The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Ron DeSantis

Alexandra Petri

I watched “Cocaine Bear” and read “The Courage to Be Free” by Ron DeSantis and all you got was this detailed side-by-side review https://t.co/BmWAbF563B

Hardcover, 2023

$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel

Paulo Coelho

Alexandra Petri

The Special Master, with apologies to Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist https://t.co/7FBVZpCf3r

Hardcover, 2010

$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

Jennifer Wright

Alexandra Petri

out today and it is SO GOOD! I learned so much and was intrigued and enraged!

Paperback, 2024

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

Alexandra Petri

if you want to know whether I’m a maybe too optimistic person the year is 2021 and I’m reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and I keep being like “maybe things will work out for Jurgis Rudkus” (NO SPOILERS PLEASE I’M ALMOST DONE AND MAYBE THINGS WILL WORK OUT FOR HIM)

Hardcover, 2016

$20.77Member price:$18.69 + Free shipping10% off