Kenneth C. Davis 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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Books include Great Short Books, Don't Know Much About® History and other DKMA titles, In the Shadow of Liberty, More Deadly Than War, Strongman

A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
25 Feb 1917 Born #OTD Anthony Burgess #writer "A Clockwork Orange" (1962) “I first heard the expression ‘as queer as a clockwork orange’ in a London pub before the Second World War.” Among the 58 writers in #GreatShortBooks https://t.co/qq3NHVthTT via @ScribnerBooks Art©Sam Kerr https://t.co/E1enEQj4Kr
Paperback, 2019
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
"You like to have some cup of tea?" (July's People) 20 NOV 1923 Born #OTD in So. Africa Nadine Gordimer, awarded 1991 @NobelPrize She is one of 58 #writers in Great Short Books: A Year of Reading-Briefly via @ScribnerBooks 11/22 https://t.co/VjvudYSPEr (Art©Sam Kerr) #books https://t.co/RPnQAbxLiW
Paperback, 1982
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Born 27 May 1894 #OTD: Dashiell Hammett-brilliant novelist (Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest,etc.), #WWI and #WWII vet, 1918 flu survivor, jailed for his politics, victim of #bookbanning Read: “When Robin Hood Was Blacklisted” https://t.co/yiRcRV0ay5 #sschat #FReadom
Paperback, 1989
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Quiet On The Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
22 June 1898 Born #OTD Erich Maria Remarque, German author of #WWI classic "All Quiet on the Western Front." The Nazis burned his work in May 1933. "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people." Read "Why Books Matter" https://t.co/d5qoPLOnfn #sschat #FReadom https://t.co/xvRg72RthP
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
27 August 1959 Born #OTD writer Jeanette Winterson "My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wresle." --Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), one of 58 #GreatShortBooks https://t.co/qLtL4DUcod (Nov 22) via @ScribnerBooks #books #bookclub #writers https://t.co/szndjdQqof
Paperback, 1997
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
1 FEB an auspicious literary date: Born #OTD -1797 Mary W. Shelley (Frankenstein) -1902 Langston Hughes -1918 Muriel Spark Spark is among the 58 writers in #GreatShortBooks https://t.co/Ns3AVTYTzF via @ScribnerBooks #Read #Books https://t.co/0hqzuz9VEC
Paperback, 2017
$12.87$6.43 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Uncle Tom's Children: Novellas
Richard Wright
4 Sept 1908 Born #OTD near Natchez, Miss, Richard Wright. A novella from "Uncle Tom's Children" (1938) is among 58 #GreatShortBooks https://t.co/qLtL4EbNMN His "Black Boy" is among frequently banned/challenged books #sschat #FReadom Art © Sam Kerr via @ScribnerBooks Nov 22 https://t.co/zDuMM7SK83
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
David McCullough
RIP-what a collection of extraordinary achievements. "Mornings on Horseback" "Path Between the Seas" among my favorites #sschat David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 https://t.co/7S0j2MR3b8
Paperback, 1982
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hiroshima
John Hersey
6 August 1945 #OTD "...the soldiers were coming out of the hole, where they should have been safe, and blood was running from their heads, chests, and backs. They were silent and dazed.” -John Hersey, "Hiroshima" (1946) #sschat #WWII https://t.co/PtBlnRDh51 https://t.co/bv26FjScFT
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The Conformist
Alberto Moravia
26 Sept 1990 died #OTD Alberto Moravia (The Conformist, Two Women) During WWII, his books were banned by Fascists and the Vatican. With wife, writer Elsa Morante, he hid on Capri where he wrote "Agostino" -among 58 #GreatShortBooks https://t.co/hb0tets0Sx (Image Public domain) https://t.co/mse4UVbqQE
Paperback, 1999
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book