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David Quammen 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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Author of The Heartbeat of the Wild (2023), Breathless (2022), Spillover, The Song of the Dodo etc. Journalism for National Geographic, The New Yorker etc.

14 books

Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry That Radicalized America

Ryan Busse

David Quammen

The bottom item is a book. Also essential. Ironic, though: "Gunfight," by @ryandbusse https://t.co/HxpDGMPr58

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

Dana Stevens

David Quammen

@thehighsign Finished your fine book, Dana Stevens, & just watched The General. Amazing. #CameraMan, Buster Keaton.

Paperback, 2023

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Grant

Ron Chernow

David Quammen

2/2 All right, yes, I've just finished @ronchernow's superb book #Grant

Paperback, 2018

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Book Cover for: Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill

Many intriguing and valuable books come to mind—by Jens Kuhn, Charlie Calisher, Helen Epstein, CJ Peters, Robt Webster, Elizabeth Pisani, Karl Johnson (unpublished MS), McCormick & Fisher-Hoch, etc—but don't forget one of the classics, "Plagues and Peoples," by Wm H. McNeill. https://twitter.com/BUCEID/status/1481277877974933508

Paperback, 1977

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition

Charles Darwin

David Quammen

Charles Darwin. If we had all actually read "On the Origin of Species" before hearing about its contents secondhand, we'd appreciate that. https://t.co/KVsKxB5djt

Paperback, Mass Market, 2003

$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Carl Zimmer

David Quammen

I suggest you read @CarlZimmer's wonderful book #SheHasHerMothersLaugh, which touches on, among many other things, the genetic complexity of sexual identity. https://t.co/S2lQOmxyKC

Paperback, 2019

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

Stephen Kinzer

David Quammen

Yes, "The Brothers," by Stephen Kinzer. It's good. But it only begins the line I'm curious about. https://t.co/F22uEKElRO

Paperback, 2014

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

Catherine Belton

David Quammen

p.s. Make that Catherin Belton, not Caroline. Long day. Sorry, Catherine. Do check out "Putin's People." https://t.co/YmT6TxSScn

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Donbas: The True Story of an Escape from the Soviet Union

Jacques Sandulescu

David Quammen

Weeks of reading on Ukraine, trying to comprehend this atrocity in historical context: Putin books by Fiona Hill, Masha Gessen, Stephen Lee Meyers & (best) Catherine Belton. Now Wm Taubman reminding me that even Nikita Khrushchev, who spent his formative years in Donbas,...1/2

Paperback, 2013

$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

Ernst Mayr

David Quammen

And I like that you've got Ernst Mayr's "The Growth of Biological Thought" in that esteemed company. https://t.co/yISbWuWZTR

Paperback, 1985

$48.00$24.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book