Brian 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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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami“I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport.” #howitbegins Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami, 2000 @vintagebooks #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/Xdxdm4Qwcu
Paperback, 2000
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Call of the Wild
Jack London“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog…’ #howitbegins The Call of the Wild, White Fang Jack London, 1903, 1906 Borders Classics #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/ndchbQcTrj
Paperback, 2008
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert“We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in, followed by a new boy not wearing a school uniform, and by a janitor carrying a large desk.” #howitbegins Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert, 1856 Bantam Books #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/LWiNRtSd9G
Hardcover, 2020
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Prince
Nicolas Machiavel“It is customary for those who wish to gain the favour of a prince to endeavour to do so by offering him gifts of…” #howitbegins The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532 Signet Classic #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/wksJ1H0ULB
Paperback, 2003
$8.00Member price:$4.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway“It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing had happened.” #howitbegins The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, 1987 Scribners #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/3pcOnzVMs7
Paperback, 1998
$22.00Member price:$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Historian
Elizabeth Kostova“In 1972 I was sixteen - young, my father said, to be traveling with him on his diplomatic missions.” #howitbegins The Historian Elizabeth Kostova, 2005 @backbaybooks #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/Vl4dznP5UA
Paperback, 2009
$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur“how is it so easy for you to be kind to people he asked milk and honey dripped from my lips as i answered cause people have not been kind to me” #howitbegins milk and honey rupi kaur, 2015 @AndrewsMcMeel #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/8gLE9pPuMl
Paperback, 2015
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky“Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district…” #howitbegins The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879-1880 @ModernLibrary (First Modern Library Edition, 1929) #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/oh4kYH5qfL
Paperback, 2024
$21.99Member price:$19.79 + Free shipping10% off
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do…” #howitbegins Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll, 1865 (this edition has no pub. date) The Peter Pauper Press #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/ZvFOdXke2V
Paperback, 2010
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” #howitbegins To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee, 1960 @HarperCollins #MyCollection #books #AtoZ by author https://t.co/wWJlmIFeGy
Paperback, 2002
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book