Rebecca Solnit 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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Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. “The very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is in itself an act of hope." --Octavia Butler
1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellRebecca SolnitThere’s a lot of eeriness in the book, but there’s also a lot of beauty... a glass paperweight with a bit of red coral in it... The sheer beauty of the object feels like resistance, because beauty itself is subversive
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
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Orwell's Roses
Rebecca SolnitRebecca Solnitwhat beauty was to Orwell I think, ultimately was a kind of integrity, something that is internally consistent, that has integrity in the moral sense, something that’s honest and truthful to the best of the speaker or writer’s abilities, something trustworthy
Paperback, 2022
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Gormenghast: Volume 2
Mervyn PeakeRebecca Solnit@tiphanieyanique Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, in a castle that's a labyrinth and almost a world unto itself.
Paperback, 2007
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
David SheffRebecca Solnit@oprahsbookclub @Oprah And you can hear him talk with me and Beautiful Boy bestselling author David Sheff here: https://t.co/9WVmtZbggQ
Paperback, 2009
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Voices: Hearing and Discerning When God Speaks
Robert GayRebecca Solnit@PreetBharara Poetry is in a golden age. Ocean Vuong, Li Young Lee, Sharon Olds, Joy Harjo, Natalie Diaz, Robert Hass, Ross Gay, and other great visionary voices too numerous to count.
Paperback, 2021
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The Owl Service
Alan GarnerRebecca SolnitI loved these fantasy books when I was young in no small part because place and landscape had agency and even agenda in them. So many were English: the Green Knowe books, Tom's Midnight Garden, Alan Garner's The Owl Service, & of course Lord of the Rings and Narnia.
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The Fire Next Time
James BaldwinRebecca Solnit@marcdefaoite @amyjccuddy @NaomiAKlein @ZadieSmith Jonathan Schell, Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time.
Paperback, 1992
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Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
Jonathan LearRebecca Solnit@_Eric_Reinhart I'm finally reading Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation, an extraordinary account of how one person looked into and then past annihilation to continue on after the destruction of his people's way of life. It resonates with this. https://t.co/vOMV9pWBN6
Paperback, 2008
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The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People
Jonathan SchellRebecca Solnit@leahstokes @Guay_JG @beatonna @AdyBarkan @ozekiland Jonathan Schell, Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. Subcomandante Marcos, Our Word Is Our Weapon. Anything by Eduardo Galeano, Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains, an amazing book about how a handful of people built an antislavery movement.
Paperback, 2004
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Adam HochschildRebecca Solnit@leahstokes @Guay_JG @beatonna @AdyBarkan @ozekiland Jonathan Schell, Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. Subcomandante Marcos, Our Word Is Our Weapon. Anything by Eduardo Galeano, Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains, an amazing book about how a handful of people built an antislavery movement.
Paperback, 2005
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