Dr Skye Cleary Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Dr Skye Cleary on XAuthor How to Be Authentic / How to be You; How to Live a Good Life; Existentialism & Romantic Love. Thinking Partner at Philosophy at Work. Existential DJ.

Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed
Clare Carlisle"he burned himself out restlessly, relentlessly pursuing this question of how to be a human being" - Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard @five_books https://t.co/BKHnm4PK5I
Paperback, 2007
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Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Helen de CruzDe Cruz makes an excellent case for intentionally cultivating wonder and awe... It is a vital aspect of our humanity; it galvanizes new ideas and inventions, awesome and wonderful themselves, which nourish and enrich our culture and our lives, individually and collectively.
Hardcover, 2024
$27.95Member price:$27.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan PenalunaMay 4 in NYC: Celebrating @reganpenaluna’s brilliant new book HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN! Regan & I will be in conversation plus performance poetry by @GraceBialecki & 21st C earth music by @bluegallo! https://t.co/ALKX5rhZhn
Paperback, 2024
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea Wulf'The dramatic lives of the Jena Set offer one model of what a Romantic existence might be' - review of Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Nikhil Krishnan @NewYorker https://t.co/EP60Y5Oegg
Paperback, 2023
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chicago: City on the Make: Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
Nelson Algren“Zylberstein has scooped the adaptation rights of de Beauvoir’s “Lettres à Nelson Algren” from Gallimard. The film will chart the pair’s affair… Two-thirds of the movie will take place in Chicago, and the reminder will unfold in Paris.” https://t.co/iZi1gKzyyc
Paperback, 2011
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
Kate KirkpatrickIn case you're looking for something to read to celebrate Simone de Beauvoir on her birthday, I highly recommend this biography "Becoming Beauvoir" by @philosofemme https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-of-sartres-shadow/
Paperback, 2020
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Inseparable
Simone De Beauvoir"If you appreciate an intimate novella about friendship, freedom, and love, then read Inseparable" - @finn_janning reviews Simone de Beauvoir’s novella Inseparable https://twitter.com/finn_janning/status/1513133449154113540
Paperback, 2022
$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives
Manon GarciaWe Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives - book discussion with @ManonGarciaFR @ellieanderphd @FilipaMeloLopes @SdBSociety 📚 https://t.co/4Mm7eoJ8en
Paperback, 2023
$22.95Member price:$20.66 + Free shipping10% off
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Kate ManneTomorrow: Book club discussion about Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne with @kate_manne @mpigliucci @euthyphro https://t.co/S4nNfuA3sI
Paperback, 2021
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Understanding the Games Men Play: How to Think Like a Man
Britten WilderBook launch of HOW TO BE AUTHENTIC at @strandbookstore in NYC on August 17 at 7pm! Thrilled to be in conversation with brilliant authors @Samantharhill (HANNAH ARENDT) & @reganpenaluna (HOW TO THINK LIKE A WOMAN forthcoming). Books & tix: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-be-authentic-panel-with-skye-c-cleary-tickets-374557871677 https://t.co/zoWFCuiIoO
Paperback, 2016
$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book