The Wall Street Journal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Roald DahlThe Wall Street JournalThe British publisher of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and other children’s books by the author has made hundreds of changes to their texts in an effort to make them more acceptable to contemporary readers, sparking criticism https://t.co/pAfIOtz5e3
Paperback, 2011
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
Leo DamroschThe Wall Street JournalGiacomo Casanova was a diplomat, duelist, mathematician and libertine—as well as a gifted storyteller. He crafted a 3,000-page memoir entitled “Histoire de Ma Vie,” the pages of which lie at the heart of this biography of the 18th-century Italian rule-breaker.
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cassoulet Confessions: Food, France, Family and the Stew That Saved My Soul
Sylvie BigarThe Wall Street Journal“The odd feeling of home nestled in that first taste of cassoulet was in fact the taste memory of my ancestors,” Silvie Bigar writes of cholent in her memoir “Cassoulet Confessions” https://t.co/RaGPPUYbvk
Hardcover, 2022
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
Jonathan DarmanThe Wall Street JournalReview: Franklin D. Roosevelt's experience of sudden paralysis after his polio diagnosis, and a seven-year effort to recover and return to public life, is detailed in Jonathan Darman's "Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President" https://t.co/V19mZad1SK
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kindred
Octavia ButlerThe Wall Street JournalReview: Based on Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel, the Hulu series "Kindred" is a time-hopping meditation on slavery https://t.co/HCoua5LDYi
Paperback, 2004
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Babysitter
Joyce Carol OatesThe Wall Street Journal“I’ve always been drawn to stories about crime,” says Joyce Carol Oates about her new novel, “Babysitter.” “The fact that I exist at all is because my mother’s father was murdered.” https://t.co/YrjFTRH01u
Paperback, 2023
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Wonder Woman: War of the Gods Omnibus
George PerezThe Wall Street JournalGeorge Pérez, the acclaimed comic book artist known for his work on “The New Teen Titans,” “Wonder Woman,” and “The Avengers,” died Friday at 67 https://on.wsj.com/3vTECmf
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
Jennifer CroftThe Wall Street JournalA group of eight translators from different countries search through the forests of Poland for the megalomaniacal author Irena Rey in this brilliant debut novel... riotous storytelling. A flair for comic invention is matched by an adoration for the written word.
Hardcover, 2024
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I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (But Mostly Blunders)
Jason GayThe Wall Street JournalIn an excerpt from his new book, “I Wouldn’t Do That if I Were Me,” @jasongay embarks on fishing adventures and misadventures with his young son, who has things to teach his bumbling dad https://t.co/diQ1FDU8Y9
Paperback, 2023
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardThe Wall Street JournalJean-Luc Godard, the most prominent film director of the French New Wave that reinvented cinema during the late 1950s and 1960s, has died https://t.co/nTz4ZwfCYQ
Hardcover, 2000
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