David Shariatmadari 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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David Shariatmadari is a books editor. Literary editor at The Guardian covering non fiction, formerly opinion editor. Wrote pop linguistics book Don't Believe A Word. Co-created Wordiply.
The Candy House
Jennifer EganDavid ShariatmadariThe Candy House by Jennifer Egan: insanely skilful. Start each chapter and you just get pulled along like you're on a waterslide.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
Laura CummingDavid Shariatmadari"Cumming writes with the sureness of carefully laid paint" - Kathryn Hughes on @LauraCummingArt's Thunderclap https://t.co/JeEFL8rJK2
Hardcover, 2023
$32.50Member price:$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Andy ClarkDavid Shariatmadari"People can also be primed to hallucinate Bing Crosby singing White Christmas while listening to pure white noise." @stevenpoole on Andy Clark's intriguing new book about consciousness https://t.co/AtpBkt0QCA
Paperback, 2024
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
Peter TurchinDavid ShariatmadariHis book’s title, End Times, doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but it does provide a clear theory about how we got into this mess, and how to get out of it. There are some familiar concepts here… but others… are much less widely recognised, and genuinely eye-opening.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire DedererDavid Shariatmadari"We can decide, in a panic of self-righteousness, to cast all their work aside and consign it to a cultural deep freeze. Or we can choose instead to keep it in full view" - Kathryn Hughes on Claire Dederer's Monsters https://t.co/o49lOnIsvI
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gays on Broadway
Ethan MorddenDavid Shariatmadari'Mordden makes it clear that, for decades, far from being a cowardly option, the closet was a necessity, offstage and on' - @eggsbened reviews Ethan Mordden's history of, well, gays on Broadway https://t.co/1OlNYzPspg
Hardcover, 2023
$30.99Member price:$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book