Chris Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Chris on X
Certain bodies must not repeat themselves in the dawn. Men do not fight for tons of steel. This, sir, is my resignation. The desperate die expensively today.

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
Kurt Vonnegut
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Hardcover, 1994
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels
29. THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY, PRIVATE PROPERTY, AND THE STATE by Friedrich Engels
Paperback, 2010
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Valences of the Dialectic
Fredric Jameson
Easing back into reading real books with some of the essays in Jameson’s Valences of the Dialectic. There’s some excellent stuff in here
Paperback, 2010
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Whitman: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
Walt Whitman
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Hardcover, 1994
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Paperback, 2006
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
David Harvey
There are several legitimate problems with David Harvey’s work but I have a huge amount of respect for him. Reading A Brief History of Neoliberalism in like 2015 sett me on the path I’m on now, in a way
Paperback, 2007
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Paperback, 2017
$14.56$7.28 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crush: Volume 99
Richard Siken
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Paperback, 2005
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Soft Science
Franny Choi
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Paperback, 2019
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poems
Walt Whitman
8 books to get to know me: The Political Unconscious, Fredric Jameson Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman Crush, Richard Siken Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Soft Science, Franny Choi Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett Lunch Poems, Frank O’Hara
Paperback, 2015
$20.25$10.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book