Dr. Gunner C Taylor 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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PhD candidate at the University of Delaware, studying ~Weird Histories~ in contemporary American culture. Co-producer for Pod45, the @AtPost45 podcast. He/Him.

Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists
Raymond Williams
I am now the proud owner of two copies of Raymond Williams's The Politics of Modernism
Paperback, 2007
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"
Paperback, 2003
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein Mary Shelley: The Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein's Monster
Mary Shelley
From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"
Paperback, 2010
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Holocaust in American Life
Peter Novick
@_super_bass Some great stuff on this topic in Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life and some in Ken Burns's new doc
Paperback, 2000
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
Had a great time this afternoon seeing @GrimKim talk about her new book, Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor today at @MakingWorldsBks https://t.co/AycmG5jiGn
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth
@mitchtherieau Don DeLillo's John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice
Paperback, 1988
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Shelley Mary
From the new Amazon Show Three Pines: "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the villagers said 'hooray the monster is dead,' but he was not just dead, they killed him" and then later, "She was Frankenstein's monster, a patchwork of all their fears"
Paperback, 2014
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Hey Parable of the Sower is very good and in some ways very prescient, but did you know Octavia Butler wrote more than one book? And all of them are incredible?
Paperback, 2019
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward
@lint_ax Oh and Kevin Young has a great essay on being/feeling Black and Rachel Dolezal in Jesmyn Ward's collection, The Fire This Time, "Blacker than Thou"
Paperback, 2017
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger is a novel brave enough to ask the question, what if two siblings were like, really messed up
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book