Brent Crane 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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Magazine writer, traveler. Words @newyorker @BW @theatlantic @nytimes @theEconomist @1843mag @thewirechina @natgeo @atavist @outsidemagazine

5 books

China Underground

Zachary Mexico

Brent Crane

Whatever happened to the writer Zachary Mexico, of "China Underground" (2009) fame? That was a nice book, but he's totally disappeared

Paperback, 2009

$17.95Member price:$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime

Anjan Sundaram

Brent Crane

.@anjansun in CDMX yesterday signing my copy of his great and harrowing memoir, Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime. Immensely enjoyable. Out in April from @CatapultStory. https://t.co/BMTb3M5h7Z

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

James M. Zimmerman

Brent Crane

For this week's @thewirechina, I spoke with @jmzbeijing about his fantastic new book, #ThePekingExpress. Read it here: https://t.co/MMFWS80t55

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder

My favorite nonfiction reads of 2022: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder In An Antique Land, @GhoshAmitav Eat The Buddha, @BarbaraDemick Black Square, @sophiepinkhmmm India Becoming, @akashkapur

Paperback, 2004

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Falling

T. J. Newman

Brent Crane

"'There was an eight-hour period where I never hung up my phone,' says Shane Salerno, Newman’s agent." https://t.co/NZiiCad5Vj

Paperback, 2022

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book