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.
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Author 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
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Helen de Cruz
De 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
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
Regan Penaluna
May 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
$18.00$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
$20.00$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
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
Kate Kirkpatrick
In 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
$19.95$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
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives
Manon Garcia
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives - book discussion with @ManonGarciaFR @ellieanderphd @FilipaMeloLopes @SdBSociety 📚 https://t.co/4Mm7eoJ8en
Paperback, 2023
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Kate Manne
Tomorrow: Book club discussion about Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, by Kate Manne with @kate_manne @mpigliucci @euthyphro https://t.co/S4nNfuA3sI
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Understanding the Games Men Play: How to Think Like a Man
Britten Wilder
Book 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
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book