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Katrina Gulliver Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Katrina Gulliver has worked at universities and cultural institutions in Europe, the US and Australia. Creator of the #twitterstorians. Innocent bystander. Bylines everywhere. Member @hdxacademy, @bookcritics. Newsletter: https://t.co/DQrGS8lQn8

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Book Cover for: Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson

Hangsaman

Shirley Jackson
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

Memoir/Essays: You Want Fries With That by @PrioleauAlexan1 - very funny account of self-reinvention by taking a range of different jobs. Fiction: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson. Narrative ambiguities made it troubling and intriguing. 3/3

Paperback, 2013

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Heavens, Sandra Newman

The Heavens

Sandra Newman
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

Since many of you are shopping for books as gifts this time of year, allow me to recommend the best books by women I've read this year (not all published this year!): Fiction: The Paragon Hotel by @LyndsayFaye The Heavens by @sannewman

Paperback, 2019

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington, Patricia Miller

Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington

Patricia Miller
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

6. Bringing Down the Colonel by Patricia Miller. Nonfiction. A 19th century sex scandal, where a jilted young woman took a powerful man to court - and withstood public shaming to get her case heard.

Paperback, 2020

$26.99Member price:$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Amy Chua

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Amy Chua
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

@laura11D Amy Chua's book World on Fire covers them quite a bit, how a small group of individuals ended up super rich.

Paperback, 2004

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays, Casey Wilson

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

Casey Wilson
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

@PstafarianPrice what are you looking for? funny? serious? (Casey Wilson's THE WRECKAGE OF MY PRESENCE is good if you like funny memoir).

Paperback, 2022

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall, Alexandra Lange

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Alexandra Lange
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

I reviewed Alexandra Lange's Meet Me By the Fountain for @CityJournal https://www.city-journal.org/the-evolution-of-malls

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Book Cover for: Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

Memoirs: Negroland by Margo Jefferson. Closely observed portrait of her childhood and community. Apparently there were Complaints by @sharongless. Witty and honest, and a great insight to life in Hollywood. 2/3

Paperback, 2016

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages

Shirley Jackson
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

4. Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson. Memoir. If you only know her as a horror writer, you’ll be surprised by these funny stories of her life as a busy mother.

Paperback, 2015

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Cat Who Saved Books, Sosuke Natsukawa

The Cat Who Saved Books

Sosuke Natsukawa
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

My turn to pick for book group and I chose THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS. It's sweet, not too long, and completely different to what I usually read.https://t.co/mPcdPADIji

Paperback, 2023

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Marshall Berman

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Marshall Berman
Katrina GulliverKatrina Gulliver

@SimonMagus @_HelenDale @cheshiretoad @hollymathnerd @Tracinski @DisaffectedP @triggerpod The most interesting riff on Marx (and much more) was Berman's All That is Solid Melts into Air.

Paperback, 1988

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book