Prospect 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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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden KeefeProspectPatrick Radden Keefe's (@praddenkeefe) Empire of Pain was a defining book of 2021, chronicling the Sackler family's immense wealth from opioids. A staff writer for the @NewYorker, his latest book Rogues was released in June. Vote here: https://t.co/7FyD3lpDJL https://t.co/Gc68Sqk2Pt
Paperback, 2023
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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
Lawrence FreedmanProspect📚Book review @kvonhippel reviews: Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, by Laurence Freedman "His new book provides an excellent historical overview of the changing dynamics between military commanders and civilian leaders." https://t.co/oxlCcqauj2
Hardcover, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Demon Copperhead
Barbara KingsolverProspectCharles Dickens in Appalachia A riotously entertaining reworking of “David Copperfield” is a tribute to its characters’ stubborn resilience @RobertDFBooks reviews Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver https://t.co/GUb61aRYnh
Paperback, 2024
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Century Club
PeabodProspectThe Century Club had been hired out by actor Hugh Grant, writes @tomlamont. Glenn Mulcaire, a reformed private investigator who spent time in jail for hacking phones, stood back-to-back at the bar with people whose secrets he had once helped into print https://t.co/z0524y7a3k
Paperback, 2010
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy ChevalierProspectMuch of what we know of Vermeer and other artists comes from inventories of their homes. “The inventory was probably the single most important piece of my research,” says @Tracy_Chevalier author of Girl With A Pearl Earring. Read Lucy Davies’s essay https://t.co/tNChCoffLq
Paperback, 2001
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Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry KissingerProspect"Is true leadership still possible today?” Jonathan Powell reviews Henry Kissinger's new book: https://t.co/8tqa9RzMzG
Paperback, 2024
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cursed Bread
Sophie MackintoshProspect"By choosing a historical mystery from 1951 as the setting for her third novel, Sophie Mackintosh has given her strange and intriguing imagination the opportunity to flourish..." Henry Oliver reviews CURSED BREAD: https://t.co/0ClSHXlxCG
Paperback, 2024
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan KarunatilakaProspect🔊Podcast! Listen to a quick-fire roundup of some of the most interesting books of the month with Prospect's @dfmcallister including Elizabeth’s Strout’s pandemic novel, Lucy by the Sea, and Shehan Karunatilaka’s, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida https://t.co/HA4FzEZOJr
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chronicles: Volume One
Bob DylanProspectThe voice Dylan deploys in The Philosophy of Modern Song is rather like that in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One—which is to say, chimerical and prone to digression https://t.co/2DNRync5EB
Paperback, 2005
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyProspectIf some aspects of Rooney’s work are cutting edge, the ways in which some of her women yield dreamily to dominant men are surprisingly old hat https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/banality-of-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-where-are-you
Paperback, 2022
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