Franklin Leonard 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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When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, How We Can Learn from Them
Julia BoorstinFranklin LeonardHopefully most of you realize by now that #WhenWomenLead, outcomes improve, but if you don’t already know that, want to know why, or how men can learn from their example, my friend @JBoorstin literally wrote the book on the subject, and it’s available now. https://t.co/OldIDSoXVp
Paperback, 2024
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Que Sera Sera: whatever will be... will be
Sohrab KhandelwalFranklin LeonardQue sera sera Whatever will be will be We’re going to Wembley Que sera sera https://t.co/HKv6VjxE7T
Paperback, 2021
$13.99$6.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Even This I Get to Experience
Norman LearFranklin LeonardEvery time I think about @thenormanlear's career, I get emotional. If you haven't read his memoir Even This I Get to Experience, I can't recommend it enough, especially the audio version, which he narrates himself. https://t.co/WCq1gj6rtR
Paperback, 2015
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint SmithFranklin Leonard@AShallowe I haven't made it back since 2001, sadly. I will stay recommending the Frederick Douglass biography if you haven't already read it. Clint Smith's How the Word is Passed too.
Paperback, 2022
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In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
Andrew BoltonFranklin LeonardFor the last eighteen months, it’s been my absolute honor and joy to advise @metmuseum Costume Institute head curator Andrew Bolton in curating filmmakers to transform rooms of the @metmuseum’s American Wing for this year’s exhibition In America: An Anthology of Fashion. https://t.co/LwaQD4EmfU
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QUE SERA SERA (Whatever will be will be)
Obasola LasekanFranklin LeonardQue sera sera Whatever will be will be We’re going to Wembley Que sera sera https://t.co/HKv6VjxE7T
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Passing
Nella LarsenFranklin LeonardRT @mat_johnson: I'm hearing grumbling the adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing, that the leads can't really pass for white. I'm looking…
Paperback, 2003
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen's Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated
Whit StillmanFranklin Leonard“#MrMalcolmsList in its imitation-classic way, is as tricky and diverting an entertainment as Whit Stillman’s “Love & Friendship” or the recent version of “Emma.” It’s a pleasingly clever dessert.” @OwenGleiberman https://t.co/anOgR4mdAs
Paperback, 2017
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)
Charles YuFranklin LeonardNewest #nationalbookawards winner for fiction Interior Chinatown by @charles_yu is going to be a @hulu television series. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/hulu-charles-yus-interior-chinatown-tv-series-1234806398/
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life
Francesca GinoFranklin LeonardThe scholar in question wrote a book called “Rebel Talent: Why it pays to break the rules at work and in life” https://t.co/RUuofr1uKW
Hardcover, 2018
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book