Stewart Brand 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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Co-founder of The Long Now Foundation--which takes no sides. In this forum, as a private person, I do take sides occasionally.

41 books

Dune

Frank Herbert

Stewart Brand

For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce

Paperback, 2005

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Stewart Brand

I wonder if we’ll come around to Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD solution: vat-grown humans. https://t.co/5vRc1EUy8I

Paperback, 2006

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Deluxe Collector's Edition (Signed Limited Edition), 1

Frank Herbert

Stewart Brand

For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce

Out of stock

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Alison Bechdel

Stewart Brand

As a fan of Alison Bechdel since FUN HOME, I was enchanted to see the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG in her new THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH (fine book, too). https://t.co/aV93aGWfzh

Hardcover, 2021

$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm

Isabella Tree

Stewart Brand

@Emma_Marris Isabella Tree's Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm https://t.co/KMIhWAHChs

Paperback, 2019

$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Second Self, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Computers and the Human Spirit

Sherry Turkle

Stewart Brand

Steven Levy reviewed Sherry Turkle's THE SECOND SELF: https://t.co/8kqH44iacf

Paperback, 2005

$35.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)

Atonement

Ian McEwan

Stewart Brand

What a shockingly good novel is Katy Hafner’s THE BOYS. Luckily I took my wife’s advice to read not a review, not even jacket copy beforehand. I haven’t been so rent since Ian McEwan’s ATONEMENT.

Paperback, 2003

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Boys

Katie Hafner

Stewart Brand

What a shockingly good novel is Katy Hafner’s THE BOYS. Luckily I took my wife’s advice to read not a review, not even jacket copy beforehand. I haven’t been so rent since Ian McEwan’s ATONEMENT.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Stewart Brand

For me, the best Folio Society books are: Aubrey-Maturin series, Patrick O'Brien (20 books) DUNE, Frank Herbert EAST OF EDEN, John Steinbeck THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, Michael Chabon GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift FINNEGANS WAKE & ULYSSES, James Joyce

Hardcover, 2025

$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

Stewart Brand

@EmilyRCWilson @moonjets Have you read CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr?

Paperback, 2022

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book