Eric Roston (@eroston.bsky.social) 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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Literally wrote the book on carbon. Butterflies & zebras & moonbeams & fairy tales. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." — Charlie Jane Anders

The Daughter of Time
Josephine Tey
@sternbergh Apropos of nothing, have you read The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey?
Paperback, 1995
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Delightful sentence; Pepper rode shotgun, but he was in the driver's seat. Whitehead, Colson. Harlem Shuffle, p 85.
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
Katharine Hayhoe
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, by Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe https://t.co/bmmAtooJiu
Paperback, 2022
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Amitav Ghosh
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, by Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav https://t.co/6LwfLPRo5H
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
@ambernoelle - Recently: A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib; People Love Dead Jews, Dara Horn - After Henry, Didion - Homer to Joyce, Wallace Gray - Myth of Sisyphus, Camus - The Same and Not the Same, Roald Hoffmann - Anything by John McPhee - The Thermodynamics of Pizza, Morowitz
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ada, or Ardor: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov invented Instagram, or email, or both, or something, in Ada or Ardor in 1969. https://t.co/8AvKkrMpzm
Paperback, 1990
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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back
Kate Aronoff
Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back, by Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff https://t.co/gJX1W3Kgmp
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert https://t.co/Q3r1TADxmS
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter
@JosephMajkut - The City and the City, by China Mieville - Falling, by TJ Newman (thriller) - The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen Carter - The Day of the Jackal, by Frederick Forsyth - The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey - All the Chandler - All the Hammett
Paperback, 2003
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Race for Tomorrow: A Journey Through the Front Lines of the Climate Fight
Simon Mundy
Race for Tomorrow, by Simon Mundy @simonmundy (Jan. 18, 2022) https://t.co/rSnQf3UnMK
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book