The co-op bookstore for avid readers

Open Culture Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

Open Culture on X
User avatar

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Find our daily culture posts on Threads, Mastodon, and Post.

123 books
Book Cover for: Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Ray Dalio
Open CultureOpen Culture

Ray Dalio Is Giving Away Free Copies of His New Book "Principles for Dealing with the Changing World" to High School & College Teachers and Their Students https://www.openculture.com/2022/05/ray-dalio-giving-free-copies-of-his-new-boo-to-high-school-college-teachers-and-their-students.html https://t.co/vYBXtGEz9A

Hardcover, 2021

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Stardust, Neil Gaiman

Stardust

Neil Gaiman
Open CultureOpen Culture

The Story of Ziggy Stardust Gets Chronicled in a New Graphic Novel, Featuring a Foreword by Neil Gaiman https://t.co/S5aZbCjwZV https://t.co/Hmlnd7NsVO

Paperback, 2021

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka
Open CultureOpen Culture

How Insomnia Shaped Franz Kafka’s Creative Process and the Writing of The Metamorphosis: A New Study Published in The Lancet https://t.co/H5SEaZ5zuY https://t.co/cETZCuAZny

Out of stock

Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
Open CultureOpen Culture

Hear Aldous Huxley Narrate His Dystopian Masterpiece, "Brave New World" https://t.co/59iR3r4pnI https://t.co/Lz8rLtFBM5

Paperback, 2006

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll

Alice: The Classic Victorian Play for Children: Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
Open CultureOpen Culture

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: The Real Perceptual Disorder That May Have Shaped Lewis Carroll’s Creative World https://t.co/sdITbNA77S https://t.co/89zr9N7q9F

Paperback, 2015

$8.95$4.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
Open CultureOpen Culture

David Bowie Dreamed of Turning George Orwell’s 1984 Into a Musical Hear the Songs That Survived the Abandoned Project https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/david-bowie-dreamed-of-turning-george-orwells-1984-into-a-musical.html via @openculture https://t.co/TsDaFjlRfa

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Ulysses: Second Edition, James Joyce

Ulysses: Second Edition

James Joyce
Open CultureOpen Culture

Read the Original Serialized Edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1918) https://t.co/jeennEbY8w https://t.co/Nagy80nqvI

Paperback, 2022

$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: The Graveyard Book: A Harper Classic: A Newbery Award Winner, Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book: A Harper Classic: A Newbery Award Winner

Neil Gaiman
Open CultureOpen Culture

Neil Gaiman & Famous Friends Read Aloud the Entirety of Coraline (and The Graveyard Book Too) https://t.co/fZcWaIaXWE https://t.co/To6fc4yCBs

Out of stock

Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines, Anthony Bourdain

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Anthony Bourdain
Open CultureOpen Culture

Watch Anthony Bourdain’s First Food-and-Travel Series "A Cook’s Tour" Free Online (2002-03) https://t.co/Pk60Zrighy https://t.co/mQFzDdo9yv

Paperback, 2002

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: James Joyce, Richard Ellmann

James Joyce

Richard Ellmann
Open CultureOpen Culture

On Substack, Patti Smith talks late night about Richard Ellmann's biography of James Joyce and shows us one of her cats. https://t.co/RHeAWPCpJR

Paperback, 1983

$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon