Elizabeth Renzetti 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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Journalist, author. She/her. Upcoming 2024: What She Said: Conversations About Equality (M&S); Bury the Lead, mystery series cowritten with Kate Hilton (Anansi)

17 books

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

Mark O'Connell

Elizabeth Renzetti

I enjoyed this thread and it reminded me how much I learned from @mrkocnnll's excellent book To Be a Machine https://t.co/1JpiQB89A4

Paperback, 2018

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Women Talking

Miriam Toews

Elizabeth Renzetti

Women Talking is a revelation. A group of women in a barn, discussing freedom and faith, a hundred times more gripping than any thriller. A profound meditation on male violence, its consequences and hope for change. Such important work from @realsarahpolley and Miriam Toews

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Food in History

Reay Tannahill

Elizabeth Renzetti

@e_tolley I remember loving Reay Tannahill's Food in History, though not a picture book!

Paperback, 1995

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Victory City

Salman Rushdie

Elizabeth Renzetti

I wrote about Salman Rushdie's new novel Victory City for @Zoomer. "Words are the only victors." https://t.co/pes3DRGTvQ

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

Eliza Reid

Elizabeth Renzetti

I'll be moderating a couple of events at the @VanWritersFest this year, including a conversation with my friend, bestselling author and all-round stellar human being @elizajreid about her terrific book Secrets of the Sprakkar https://t.co/1odqg9e2vF

Paperback, 2023

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

State of Terror

Louise Penny

Elizabeth Renzetti

I thoroughly enjoyed State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Clinton, not least as an act of revenge on "President Eric Dunn," a hulking moron whose breath smells of meat

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Susan Faludi

Elizabeth Renzetti

@Thomsod I know. Susan Faludi predicted this. Every advance is met with a sustained backlash

Paperback, 2006

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir

Martha Wainwright

Elizabeth Renzetti

Martha Wainwright's new memoir Stories I Might Regret Telling You is remarkable -- funny and candid and searing. Join us on April 4 to talk about it! @AnotherStoryTO https://t.co/O2Sf8omlKz

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Waiting for a Star to Fall

Kerry Clare

Elizabeth Renzetti

@JulieSLalonde Such a good list, Julie. If it's okay I would add @judyrebick's Heroes in my Head, @MarthPaynter's Abortion to Abolition, and for fiction @HMarshallAuthor's Looking for Jane and Kerry Clare's Waiting for a Star to Fall

Paperback, 2020

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

Elizabeth Renzetti

Join me online tomorrow at noon as I talk to @Lucy_Worsley about her terrific new biography, Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman @torontolibrary https://t.co/VkYoFgW0j9

Hardcover, 2022

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book