Rafer Guzman🇺🇸 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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Film Critic for Newsday. Co-Host of Movie Therapy With Rafer and Kristen. “The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie.”

Mutiny on the Bounty
Charles Nordhoff
Books read, 2021, cont’d: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Moviegoer by Percy Walker Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
Paperback, 1989
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics
Dylan Jones
Ants guitarist Marco Perroni says (in Dylan Jones’ “Sweet Dreams”) that Adam’s stripe came from David Bowie: https://t.co/XAbfSXVQxd
Hardcover, 2020
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Books read, 2021, cont’d: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Moviegoer by Percy Walker Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
Paperback, 2015
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick
@lawrencelibrary Careless Love, Peter Guralnick.
Paperback, 2000
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
White Noise
Don Delillo
Meager list of books read in 2021, but some very good ones: Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis White Noise* by Don DeLillo Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis * Did not realize I had already read until halfway through
Paperback, 1986
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The Sacred Fount: Novel
Henry James
@DonaldClarke63 Amazing novel that I only just read a year ago. Maybe not the GOAT, but a close second to Henry James or even Dickens in a way. Have not read “Mill.”
Paperback, 1995
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
David Michaelis
Meager list of books read in 2021, but some very good ones: Everyday Drinking by Kingsley Amis White Noise* by Don DeLillo Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis * Did not realize I had already read until halfway through
Paperback, 2013
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David Bowie: The Oral History
Dylan Jones
Ants guitarist Marco Perroni says (in Dylan Jones’ “Sweet Dreams”) that Adam’s stripe came from David Bowie: https://t.co/XAbfSXVQxd
Paperback, 2018
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Madness of Crowds
Louise Penny
Books read, 2021, end: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Best book of year, classic division: “To the Finland Station.” Best book of year, contemporary division: “The Vanishing Half.”
Paperback, 2022
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The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Books read, 2021, end: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny Best book of year, classic division: “To the Finland Station.” Best book of year, contemporary division: “The Vanishing Half.”
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book