Pamela Toler 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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Writing unexpected history for smart adults and curious kids - and vice-versa. Author of Women Warriors. Kickass cook.

Boundless as the Sky
Dawn Raffel
@BookCougars @StephenKing @bankstirregular @chriswolak @emilyafine A slender volume for me: an arc of Dawn Raffel's Boundless as the Sky.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic about the Outbreak of World War I
Barbara W. Tuchman
@TheBookMaven Reading The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman. Not as breathtaking as The Guns of August, but still soooo good.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
Candice Millard
In which I finally read @candice_millard 's Hero of the Empire: https://t.co/IjMtMenyX6 Short version? Wow!
Paperback, 2017
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James Joyce
@rebecca_fachner The only book my parents ever took away from me was James Joyce's Ulysses. I was probably 9 or 10. And quite frankly, I don't know why it was in the house.
Paperback, 1990
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Tramp Abroad: 1
Mark Twain
Mark Twain wasn't the only famous person from Hannibal, MO, Pt. 1: Ukulele Ike - https://t.co/9LJQ0FyV7p https://t.co/1Wguws6USB
Hardcover, 2022
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nights of Plague
Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague is tracking me down.
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change
Dolly Chugh
In which I fan-girl about @Dolly Chugh 's new book: History and "A More Just Future" - https://t.co/LZwQw1eckj https://t.co/VwpU02rnGP
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Happy All the Time
Laurie Colwin
@jamiattenberg @mariskreizman Love Laurie Colwin! Happy All the Time is wonderful. So is Goodby Without Leaving. Or any of her novels, really
Paperback, 2010
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series
Barbara W. Tuchman
@TheBookMaven Reading The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman. Not as breathtaking as The Guns of August, but still soooo good.
Paperback, 1996
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dog Songs: Poems
Mary Oliver
@SketchesbyBoze Who the hell makes fun of Mary Oliver poems? That's just wrong.
Paperback, 2015
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book