Sara Wheeler 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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Orwell's Roses
Rebecca SolnitSara WheelerOrwell's work is everyone's work now: my review of Rebecca Solnit's 'Orwell's Roses' https://t.co/d78qry6RoE
Paperback, 2022
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So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
William MaxwellSara WheelerCelebrating the birth this day 1908 of William Maxwell, writer of writers. 'So Long, See You Tomorrow' is in my top 30 American novels. An elegy for life itself. https://t.co/EpqPKVb0t9
Paperback, 1996
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Silent Spring
Rachel CarsonSara WheelerHeroines of Glowing Still 14/14. Rachel Carson, fugleman for the apocalypse to come, published Silent Spring in 1962. She revealed that pesticides including bioaccumulative endocrine disrupter dieldrin were killing the planet. https://t.co/cKLJM8Ph8Y
Paperback, 2022
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The Wrong End of the Telescope
Rabih AlameddineSara WheelerThe Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine - protagonist calls it the true story of a lesbian Lebanese on Lesbos. https://t.co/mtdK5Rbw3n
Paperback, 2022
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The Radetzky March: Introduction by Alan Bance
Joseph RothSara WheelerInteresting point in @PhilipHensher's fine review of the Joseph Roth Life: 'read this biography, and then The Radetzky March, to see just how great a book a frighteningly unpleasant person could produce.' Other candidates? Sybille Bedford and Don Otavio?
Hardcover, 1996
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaSara WheelerWell dang. I went to see A Little Life and ran into the author of the novel of the play. Hanya Yanagihara superstar https://t.co/Ucwat5iHFP
Paperback, 2016
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy TooleSara WheelerNew Orleans - Me and my hero Ignatius J Reilly from the fabulous 1980 US novel, A Confederacy of Dunces. RiP John Kennedy Toole and long live Ignatius and his ilk. https://t.co/l717kts4J2
Paperback, 1994
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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
Gavin FrancisSara WheelerStill thinking about last week's gripping talk at Armadale Castle, Skye, by @gavinfranc who discussed his lovely book 'Island Dreams' and the funny business of being a doctor and a writer . . . https://t.co/pFZNB7yVLY
Hardcover, 2021
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The Story of Russia
Orlando FigesSara WheelerImpressive and deeply immersive ... The book’s outstanding feature is its brevity, and I mean this as praise... Figes speaks on every page in the crisp, sober manner of a newsreader, while observing the action unfold with an eagle’s eye.
Paperback, 2023
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The Lawless Roads
Graham GreeneSara WheelerJust this week discovered a reference to the fabled third/fourth presence in Graham Greene's 'The Lawless Roads'. The fantasy really got traction, and you can see why.
Paperback, 2006
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