@petersagal.bsky.social 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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Peter Daniel Sagal is an American humorist, writer, and host of the National Public Radio game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Host of @WaitWait on @NPR. Author of "The Incomplete Book of Running" and "The Book of Vice" For speaking engagements: https://t.co/YuV5fDJ3fh
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell@petersagal.bsky.socialI very much enjoyed reading the novel “Utopia Avenue” by David Mitchell, and thus suggest that you might do the same.
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy@petersagal.bsky.socialRIP Cormac McCarthy. As David Foster Wallace said while recommending "Blood Meridian" as one of the greatest novels ever written: "Don't even ask."
Paperback, 1992
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig@petersagal.bsky.socialA few years ago, I read “The World of Yesterday” by Stefan Zweig, his memoir of fin-de-siecle Vienna and how Europe then descended into madness and death in WWII. The main point: he and his friends simply couldnt believe it could happen, even as it was happening.
Paperback, 2013
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick Perlstein@petersagal.bsky.socialI haven’t read many books about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, but the best is by far “Reaganland” by @rickperlstein. A clear eyed critique of his virtues and flaws in office, all quite real.
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
10 Minutes Till Bedtime
Peggy Rathmann@petersagal.bsky.socialI would add "10 Minutes Till Bedtime," also by Peggy Rathman. And while I know the author has become, shall we say, problematic, to quote @NickKristof: getting to read the Harry Potter series aloud is one of best reasons to have children.
Paperback, 2004
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Outpost: The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War
Jake Tapper@petersagal.bsky.socialThe very little I know about the Afghan War comes from @jaketapper's book, "The Outpost" and the subsequent movie adaptation by @RodLurie. To say that with withdrawal that those men fought and died for nothing is not a judgement on them, but perhaps on those who sent them.
Paperback, 2020
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai@petersagal.bsky.socialThe novels I've read this year: Circe by Madeline Miller, The Great Believers by @rebeccamakkai, The Calculating Stars by @MaryRobinette, and now Mrs Everything by @jenniferweiner. All highly recommended.
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
Susan Orlean@petersagal.bsky.socialReminds me of the story @susanorlean tells in her great book, "Rin Tin Tin:" During WWII, the military asked Americans to lend their dogs to be trained in the war effort, and thousands did... and never saw their dogs again. https://t.co/WUh1SBHfXI
Paperback, 2012
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
Jimmy Breslin@petersagal.bsky.social"The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" callout! Somewhere, Jimmy Breslin smiles.
Paperback, 2005
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We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
General Ha Moore@petersagal.bsky.socialOne more thing about the book "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" by the late Hal Moore and Joe Galloway, who we lost just a month ago. The soldier pictured on the cover is Lt. Rick Rescorla, a hero of the battle of Ia Drang, the subject of the book. https://t.co/XplO5H0GDn
Paperback, 2004
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book