Mark O’Connell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Mark O’Connell on X
Mark O'Connell is a writer. Writer of A Thread of Violence (2023), Notes from an Apocalypse (2020), To Be a Machine (2017) Agent: karolina.sutton@caa.com (UK); amelia.atlas@caa.com (US)

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe
@libella_lawson Huge congrats to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose "The Sorrows of Young Werther" has just been snapped up by Simon and Schuster's new NA imprint!
Paperback, 2016
$6.25$3.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Saul Bellow
Say what you like about Saul Bellow, but he basically invented the reply guy with Herzog
Paperback, 2015
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sorrows of Young Werther: Illustrated (The Maple Classic Edition)
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
@libella_lawson Huge congrats to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose "The Sorrows of Young Werther" has just been snapped up by Simon and Schuster's new NA imprint!
Out of stock

The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
@libella_lawson Huge congrats to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose "The Sorrows of Young Werther" has just been snapped up by Simon and Schuster's new NA imprint!
Out of stock

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
David Grann’s The Wager is the most relentlessly compelling book I’ve read in a very long time. Grann is a master storyteller, and he unfurls this tale of a disastrous sea voyage with almost unparalleled skill and subtlety.
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Wolfgang Von Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
@libella_lawson Huge congrats to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose "The Sorrows of Young Werther" has just been snapped up by Simon and Schuster's new NA imprint!
Paperback, 2007
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us
Adam Kirsch
For the new @nybooks, I wrote about Adam Kirsch’s The Revolt Against Humanity, and the idea that the end of our species would be a good thing https://t.co/TrHSHt2hlO
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James Joyce
BLOOM: (Doing Borat Voice) My wife ––James Joyce, "Circe", Ulysses
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sorrows of Young Werther
J. W. Von Goethe
@libella_lawson Huge congrats to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose "The Sorrows of Young Werther" has just been snapped up by Simon and Schuster's new NA imprint!
Paperback, 2015
$6.50$3.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Ed Caesar
You should read @edcaesar’s The Moth and the Mountain for selfish reasons, because it’s a great book, but now you should also read it for humanitarian reasons https://twitter.com/edcaesar/status/1516701224468426754
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book