Big Issue 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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The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

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What did we learn from The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan? https://t.co/KrZu4VWHni

Hardcover, 2022

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Room

Emma Donoghue

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Based on Room author Emma Donoghue’s 2016 novel, The Wonder is emotionally fraught but with a compassionate core, writes Graeme Virtue https://t.co/PyENzUfblB

Paperback, 2011

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

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It seems particularly timely in 2023, a year steeped in horror, with unspeakable events recorded in warzones all over the world, that a book about music borne of atrocity should cast a new light on the qualities of art as a magnifying glass, and also as a healer.

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Haven

Emma Donoghue

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Emma Donoghue's gripping new novel sends two monks to a remote, inhospitable rock, where they find themselves bound by the tyranny of a religious zealot who turns their promised land into an inescapable purgatory. @DaniGaravelli1 reviews Haven https://t.co/fDHKlo4fLE

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

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Here's what our books editor @Janeannie made of Hanya Yanagihara's much-anticipated follow-up to A Little Life https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/to-paradise-by-hanya-yanagihara-review-an-evocative-novel-about-echoes-cycles-and-regrets/

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

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'It's changed the way I read forever' Books editor @Janeannie reveals The Big Issue Book of the Year https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/a-swim-in-a-pond-in-the-rain-by-george-saunders-the-big-issue-book-of-the-year-2021/

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen

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“It was about unrequited love for Hans Christian Andersen. He felt like an outsider. He was a gay man in love with a man – just like Ariel is in love with a prince. So he is the Little Mermaid." Rob Marshall, director of #TheLittleMermaid… https://t.co/Gi9bTWw5re

Paperback, 2025

$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life in Mod - From the Revival to Acid Jazz

Eddie Piller

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In his new book, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, Eddie Piller is great company. A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious, he is at once an engaging protagonist and an indisputable authority https://t.co/bZKoK6nM90

Paperback, 2024

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead

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Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead: An Ocean’s Eleven meets Ozark heist caper https://bigissue.com/culture/books/harlem-shuffle-by-colson-whitehead-an-oceans-eleven-meets-ozark-heist-caper

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

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The art of the interview has been changed forever with the publication of a series of interviews with Nick Cave, which is the Big Issue's Book of the Year https://t.co/SUYFp132wk

Hardcover, 2022

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book