David Reiersgord 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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The Book of Goose
Yiyun LiDavid ReiersgordLoved Our Man. My view of diplomacy, which was naive, has shifted. Now, I’m reading The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li. https://t.co/kpRyvTGdBr
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan DiazDavid ReiersgordFinished with the whales. What a story about the Essex whale ship and its crew. Next up is Hernan Diaz’s novel Trust. https://t.co/cLX132t6sE
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Elizabeth D. SametDavid ReiersgordNext up is Elizabeth Samet’s Looking for the Good War. Samet is a English professor at West Point. https://t.co/t17c8iUQe5
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Return of Faraz Ali
Aamina AhmadDavid ReiersgordFinished Revolt—loved it. Next up is the novel The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad. https://t.co/MmH15av8y5
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
Justice MalalaDavid ReiersgordI lied. I’m moving through Justice Malala’s new book The Plot to Save South Africa, which I picked up in Johannesburg last week. Then I will get to Three-Martini Lunch. https://t.co/663qipl2P7
Paperback, 2024
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lion House: The Coming of a King
Christopher de BellaigueDavid ReiersgordFinishing up Three Ring Circus. If you’re a sports fan and particularly the NBA this is a must-read. Next up is The Lion House: The Coming of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue. I’ve heard a lot about this book which mixes genres like biography and historical fiction. https://t.co/MhBJCGoKJL
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Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Jeff PearlmanDavid ReiersgordNearing the end of Blood in the Garden. I’m struck by just how different the NBA of the 90s is to what it was ten years later and even now. The Knicks of that era seem to have had very good—but no great—teams. Next up is Three Ring Circus by Jeff Pearlman. https://t.co/99fdjdEloF
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Imani PerryDavid ReiersgordAnd my top five nonfiction are: 1) Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mnchangama 2) South to America by Imani Perry 3) The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks 4) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow 5) Our Man by George Packer
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mother Ocean Father Nation
Nishant BatshaDavid ReiersgordThe year is nearly over so I’ll recap my top five novels I read this year: 1) The Vagrants by Yiyuan Li 2) Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha 3) A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tao 4) New York, My Village by Uwem Akpan 5) The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David GraeberDavid ReiersgordAnd my top five nonfiction are: 1) Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media by Jacob Mnchangama 2) South to America by Imani Perry 3) The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks 4) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow 5) Our Man by George Packer
Paperback, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book