Michael Powell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Michael Powell on X
Staff writer, The Atlantic Magazine. Former cabbie, tenant organizer & doorman. Brooklyn w 2 boyz. Author of "Canyon Dreams" https://t.co/NRl2OE52h5

The Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
Britain’s economic recovery from Covid – Not perfect, but quite a bit better than flatlined. And a lesson of Dante’s Paradiso @Telegraph : https://t.co/mKeLmQtk9J
Paperback, Mass Market, 2009
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Adolph L. Reed
Adolph Reed's book "The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives" is so smart and nuanced and personal https://t.co/8aKHPdtGgA
Paperback, 2025
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
@AlecMacGillis @awinston Dispatches was brilliant .. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien was also great
Paperback, 2009
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Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
Michael Powell
‘Rez Ball’ Movie Cast Set Netflix, Sydney Freeland. “Inspired by @powellnyt’s critically acclaimed nonfiction book Canyon Dreams, as well as groundbreaking @nytimes articles, Rez Ball explores raw and exhilarating world of “reservation basketball”: https://t.co/nXkT2NlC7F
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book