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Michael Pollan 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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Michael Pollan is an author. Author of This is Your Mind on Plants; How to Change Your Mind; Cooked; In Defense of Food; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; The Botany of Desire and Second Nature.

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Book Cover for: The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change, Ellen Ruppel Shell

The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change

Ellen Ruppel Shell
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

A terrific new book by my friend Ellen Shell on the future of work and how the whole idea of "fulfillment" in your job is a racket. "The Job" by Ellen Ruppel Shell | https://t.co/V2etwqav3w https://t.co/tdueeFRXcR

Hardcover, 2018

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: What We Owe the Future, William Macaskill

What We Owe the Future

William Macaskill
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Don't miss this is provocative, important and highly original book.

Hardcover, 2022

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from Around the World, Sandor Ellix Katz

Sandor Katz's Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from Around the World

Sandor Ellix Katz
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

The latest, from my friend Sandor Katz, just out, looks great: Sandor Katz’s Fermentation Journeys: Recipes, Techniques, and Traditions from around the World: Katz, Sandor Ellix: 9781645020349: https://t.co/0LV7sFauHN: Books https://t.co/yLoL9FMDvi

Hardcover, 2021

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Seeds of Resistance: The Fight for Food Diversity on Our Climate-Ravaged Planet, Mark Schapiro

Seeds of Resistance: The Fight for Food Diversity on Our Climate-Ravaged Planet

Mark Schapiro
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Check out this new book by my friend and colleague Mark Schapiro, by far the best take on the politics of seeds I have read. Seeds of Resistance https://t.co/QC4kqNFOj8

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

RT @LibraryJournal: This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is “a wide-ranging investigation that will interest anyo…

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves, Nicola Twilley

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Nicola Twilley
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

I absolutely love @nicolatwilley's fascinating history of the cold chain, something we never think about but should: Frostbite by Nicola Twilley

Hardcover, 2024

$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness, Patrick House

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness

Patrick House
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Fascinating new book about consciousness by the neuroscience advisor to How to Change Your Mind https://bit.ly/3zcKSH3

Hardcover, 2022

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life, Dacher Keltner

Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

Dacher Keltner
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Long-awaited, AWE, by my friend and colleague Dacher Keltner, is an awesome book, with profound implications for mental health, psychedelics and a life well-lived. https://t.co/qjPoSY9JZt https://t.co/PsL1npTiHn

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out, Stephen Gray

How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out

Stephen Gray
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Can psychedelics help save the world? I don't know, but I'll definitely be reading this new book that argues yes

Paperback, 2022

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, Mike Jay

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay
Michael PollanMichael Pollan

Mike Jay's PSychonauts is easily the most interesting work of psychedelic history I've read in years.

Hardcover, 2023

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book