Dr. Amy Brady Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr. Amy Brady

Readers will never think of eyeliner the same way after reading this book... [Eyeliner] has a richer and sometimes stranger history than many people (including me) would have guessed... endlessly fascinating.

Dr. Amy Brady

While novels like Kleeman’s frequently get the facts of climate change right, they don’t always nail the structure of feeling of times like these. That’s where this book shines: it captures the uncanniness of the climate crisis in prose that thrills and startles.

Dr. Amy Brady

Particulate Matter is a memoir as much about love as disaster. It follows one year of Lemus’s life, when record-setting fires in California strained the author’s lungs and her marriage to acclaimed novelist Nina Revoyr... Amidst so much ash and hate, however, love shines…

Dr. Amy Brady

Too often, narratives about the climate crisis hinge upon an emotional dyad: hope vs. despair. And even more often, despair wins out. Hyde’s novel Eleutheria complicates such stories by centering on Willa, an optimist who joins a group of activists fighting climate change…

Dr. Amy Brady

Both a harrowing depiction of depression and a laugh-out-loud mystery about physics, psychedelics and the publishing industry... At turns delightful and demanding, William Brewer’s debut novel is a serpentine ride that culminates in a moving encounter between art and science.

Dr. Amy Brady

We need more brave books like Denial that imagine a future that’s not dystopic—but that can show us how we might get there and who we’ll become when we do.

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Dr. Amy Brady

@jeffgoodell Thanks so much, Jeff! Can not wait for THE HEAT WILL KILL YOU FIRST!

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Dr. Amy Brady

Hands down SOUNDS WILD AND BROKEN by @DGHaskell is one of the best books I've read so far this year. Read an excerpt over at @Orion_Magazine and then purchase a copy at your local indie https://twitter.com/Orion_Magazine/status/1498733007162720259

Dr. Amy Brady

Love, love, love this Q&A with @mayhewbergman in @Orion_Magazine about Megan's brilliant new collection HOW STRANGE A SEASON. Read the interview, and then buy her book! https://orionmagazine.org/2022/03/megan-mayhew-bergman-book-interview-how-strange-a-season/

Dr. Amy Brady

Italian journalist Andrea di Robilant illuminates the geopolitical machinations and heart-pounding voyages of 17th-century explorers...Scrupulously research­ed, This Earthly Globe reveals the riveting foundations of modern geography and cartography.