New York Times Books Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
New York Times Books on X
All things books from The New York Times. You like reading, we do too.
The Violin Conspiracy: A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)
Brendan SlocumbNew York Times BooksIn "The Violin Conspiracy," Brendan Slocumb transforms the world of classical music into a thrilling mystery novel. https://t.co/7DNbxG4UJI
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Jackie & Me
Louis BayardNew York Times BooksOur Group Text pick is ... drumroll, please ... “Jackie & Me” by Louis Bayard, a novel about the courtship of JFK and Jackie, as seen through the eyes of their friend. https://t.co/2CYwLSVyGR
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
William P. BarrNew York Times Books“‘One Damn Thing After Another’ is an intemperate culture-war treatise smuggled into a lawyer’s memoir.” Our critic @jenszalai reviews William P. Barr’s new book. https://t.co/2peoARHwdT
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Happy-Go-Lucky
David SedarisNew York Times BooksDavid Sedaris humorously portrays tough times in “Happy-Go-Lucky,” which makes a first appearance on the paperback nonfiction best-seller list. https://t.co/RBuIvfa4QR
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
Dan SchreiberNew York Times BooksDan Schreiber’s “willfully miscellaneous” tome “The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird,” says our reviewer, is “the kind of random, strange-for-the-sake-of-strange compendium that’s seldom published anymore.” https://t.co/XE5WfpyAMp
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans
Laura TretheweyNew York Times BooksTitans of industry are poised “for a brutal scavenging of the wealth that we know is lying, hitherto untouched, deep in the oceans’ deepest deeps,” writes our reviewer Simon Winchester of Laura Trethewey’s “The Deepest Map.” https://t.co/5kEFVstCSM
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Darryl PinckneyNew York Times BooksAt times painful and poignant, “Come Back in September,” Darryl Pinckney’s memoir of Elizabeth Hardwick and her New York intellectual world, is nonetheless a delight to read, full of deft character sketches and delicious gossip. https://t.co/RabejlGRhO
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Book of Two Ways
Jodi PicoultNew York Times BooksJodi Picoult’s “The Book of Two Ways” makes a first appearance on the paperback trade fiction best-seller list. https://t.co/1X75DW3xRo
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Best Barbarian: Poems
Roger ReevesNew York Times BooksIn his collection “Best Barbarian,” the poet Roger Reeves riffs on Western tradition to challenge its omissions and expand its political and artistic possibilities. “The reader traverses a sonic landscape from elegy to ecstasy,” our reviewer writes. https://t.co/afJBlgRy3O
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Carole Boston WeatherfordNew York Times BooksMacNolia Cox speaks only one sentence in “How Do You Spell Unfair?,” which hews very carefully to the scant historical record. Almost a century later, Zaila Avant-garde, author of a picture book and a memoir, cannot be silenced so effectively. https://t.co/AbObQcWjnn
Hardcover, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book