Pamela Paul 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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Pamela Paul is an opinion columnist at the New York Times.
The Oppermanns
Lion FeuchtwangerPamela PaulIt’s been nearly 90 years since its publication, but reading it now is like staring into the worst of next week. It’s all there: The ways in which a country can lose its grip on the truth. The ways in which tribalism is easily roused to demonize others.
Paperback, 2022
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The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan RosenPamela PaulI don’t think I’ll ever get over reading this book or wanting to insist that everyone else read it.
Paperback, 2024
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Ian UrbinaPamela PaulThis book is great and terrifying, and if anything gets me to stop eating fish, it will be this book. The conditions for many workers around the world are appalling and the damage to the planet, devastating.
Paperback, 2020
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All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Mikhail ZygarPamela PaulThis book by Mikhail @zygaro came out in 2016 but remains an extremely relevant backgrounder to everything happening in Russia and Ukraine today. You watch as all the horror unfolds over the course of two decades. And it is exceptionally readable.
Paperback, 2017
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You Broke It!
Liana FinckPamela PaulBrilliant, humane and and most of all, funny, this book is about human nature and animal nature. It’s about what parents say and what children hear and about the ways we just can’t help being.
Hardcover, 2024
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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
Abraham VerghesePamela PaulI know I’m late to this book, but it got me at the right moment, and its 700 pages flew by like an escapist extended fable...it’s just a whole absorbing epic, heavy on tragic events, and with cliffhangers aplenty.
Hardcover, 2023
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V13: Chronicle of a Trial
Emmanuel CarrèrePamela PaulNot surprisingly, Emmanuel Carrere has written another profound, unforgettable, devastating and humane book. One you will not regret reading.
Hardcover, 2024
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