Quillette 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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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
John McWhorterQuillette“In his new book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter demonstrates that there is far more Martin Luther than Martin Luther King in today’s anti-racist movement.” https://t.co/Pny1xu4Oq4
Hardcover, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fifty Shades of Grey
E. L. JamesQuilletteIt cannot have escaped your notice that the best-selling book series of recent years was E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey https://t.co/5RL7GoNOEd
Hardcover, 2013
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Jennifer RaffQuilletteJennifer Raff’s ‘Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas’—A Review | @eweissunburied https://t.co/UkoQyZLOI5
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James JoyceQuilletteA World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100 | @JaredMPollen https://t.co/JfbzKuRV3n
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The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Mark SolmsQuilletteIn The Hidden Spring, South African psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a solution to the hard problem of consciousness that is grounded in neuroscience and physics and expressible in mathematics and information theory. https://t.co/hd43AxAdf0 https://t.co/Zf30cmJcTF
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Confessions
Saint AugustineQuillette"Brooks traces the remarkable history of success addiction/workaholism. Churchill had his “black dog”... Lincoln battled his “melancholy.” Saint Augustine acknowledged his craving for the attention of others in his book Confessions." https://t.co/IUMHY9HwQx
Hardcover, 2018
$20.29$10.15 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Where You End and I Begin: A Memoir
Leah McLarenQuilletteRead an excerpt of Leah McClaren's memoir Where You End and I Begin, which explores the unconventionally intimate relationship she shared with her mother—a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by past trauma. https://t.co/bSH2VMVvVD
Hardcover, 2022
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Iliad: Book 22
HomerQuilletteFor whatever reason, a long and, yes, honourable tradition of martial verse, from Homer’s Iliad through to Kipling’s barrack room ballads, ended in 1914–18, writes @TheSimonEvans https://t.co/ZY7iCjHLIH
Paperback, 2017
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Devil's Alternative: A Thriller
Frederick ForsythQuillette“It might seem odd to recommend a thriller by a British author as a source of information about the ancient enmity between Russia and the Ukraine, but Frederick Forsyth is no ordinary novelist and his books are not ordinary novels.” https://t.co/gyiaSM70Dl
Paperback, 2012
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lost World
Arthur Conan DoyleQuillette"Richard’s scientific instincts were a throwback to a time when science was a public adventure, evoked by the kind of characters that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created in books such as The Lost World." https://t.co/skmDkTy39s
Paperback, 2003
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book