Kathryn VanArendonk 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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Kathryn VanArendonk is a writer for Vulture. critic @vulture, 1/3rd of @atvpodcast, child wrangler. kathryn.vanarendonk @ https://t.co/6LbuHJVbFk
![Book Cover for: Utopia, Thomas More](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781378854389.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Utopia
Thomas More![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
me, 10pm next friday, feverishly blogging after the rehearsal finale: although most commonly read as a form of social restructuring meant to distribute labor along particular class lines, thomas more's utopia is primarily an imagined world that eliminates uncertainty
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![Book Cover for: The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur, Lev Grossman](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780735224049.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1709847323)
The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Lev Grossman![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
Like the best of Grossman's work, [ The Bright Sword] is funny and sweeping . . . the medieval-romance structure allows Bright Sword even more space to capitalize on Grossman's talent for digression, dawdling, and finding unexpected trapdoors inside stories.
Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Heart Bones, Colleen Hoover](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781668021910.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1711513972)
Heart Bones
Colleen Hoover![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
last night i learned that colleen hoover's next book is called HEART BONES. *heart bones* the bones. of your heart.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781400079148.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
this image was too powerful and that is why peacock's dan brown's the lost symbol was canceled https://t.co/Qcg4o1Y4YQ
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![Book Cover for: Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Volume 1, Frank Herbert](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781419731501.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1713717789)
Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Volume 1
Frank Herbert![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
the thing you have to know about dune and about the name duncan idaho is that several books and thousands of years later, frank herbert introduces a character named marty
Hardcover, 2020
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Adam Bede, George Eliot](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781514602904.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Adam Bede
George Eliot![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
AS WE CONSIDER THE TRADITION OF FOURTH WALL BREAKING ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO WOMEN PROTAGONISTS IT IS VITAL TO REMEMBER CHAPTER 17 OF ADAM BEDE, IN WHICH GEORGE ELIOT BREAKS FROM THE ACTION OF THE NOVEL IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN HER OWN UNDERSTANDING OF NARRATIVE THEOR— https://t.co/HQcW3u8blA
Paperback, 2015
$10.65$5.32 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Christmas, Grace Jones](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781786378217.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Christmas
Grace Jones![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
recent tally of which one 4yo says is her: rita moreno in west side story yoko ono in get back grace jones in pee wee herman’s christmas special veruca salt
Paperback, 2019
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Matrix, Lauren Groff](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781594634505.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Matrix
Lauren Groff![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
many more hours into Pentiment obviously it’s for medievalists and book history people and all the name of the rose weirdos it is also for: Dorothy Sayers freaks, people who love Hamnet or Lauren Groff’s novel Matrix, and, of course, Kate Beaton fans
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Airplanes, Just Pictures!](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9781974567799.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Airplanes
Just Pictures!![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
was just prompted by a captcha full of pictures of airplanes, asking me to identify which ones were seaplanes? and then stared at the grid, meditating on seaplanes and how wild it is to land on the water and also talespin? and what about the planes whose feet I cannot see?
Paperback, 2017
$16.10$8.05 + Free shipping50% off your first book![Book Cover for: Clementine, Sara Pennypacker](https://d16057n354qyo4.cloudfront.net/9780786838837.jpg?nextExtension=webp&version=1725752340)
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker![Kathryn VanArendonk](https://d1iyvy95qprisd.cloudfront.net/avatars-md/aabf9180-d5ea-4ba2-abf3-77e27f851424.webp)
@gvsmith PENDERWICKS (at least the first one, for sure - they're all great but the kids start to get older) Sara Pennypacker's Clementine series but also there are some strong graphic novels in this vein
Paperback, 2008
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book