Tim O'Reilly 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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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George SaundersTim O'Reilly@amyjccuddy A Swim In A Pond In The Rain, by George Saunders. The best book on how to read carefully and think about what you read that I have ever encountered. Also introduced me to some wonderful deeply humane classics of Russian literature.
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Outsider
Colin WilsonTim O'Reilly@amyjccuddy The Outsider, by Colin Wilson. I read it when I was 24 at the same age Wilson was when he wrote it. It inspired me to think of myself as a writer, and it taught me to think of literary criticism as an engagement with other minds, not a stale dissection of their books.
Paperback, 1987
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonTim O'ReillyThread! And for a vivid description of a wet bulb crisis in fiction, see Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry For The Future. https://t.co/9xHXUxZXNE
Paperback, 2021
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tao Te Ching: Gilded Pocket Edition
Lao TzuTim O'Reilly@farnamstreet The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching translated by Witter Bynner)
Hardcover, 2020
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
Witter BynnerTim O'Reilly@farnamstreet The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching translated by Witter Bynner)
Paperback, 1986
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Les Misérables: Volume 4
Victor HugoTim O'Reilly@paulkrugman @GreatDismal In that regard there is no better encomium than the extended passage in Les Misérables in which Victor Hugo explains why "Merde" is the noblest word in the French language.
Hardcover, 2020
$76.90$51.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Tao Te Ching
Lao-TzuTim O'Reilly@farnamstreet The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching translated by Witter Bynner)
Hardcover, 2018
$15.81$7.91 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tao Te Ching
Lao Lao TzuTim O'Reilly@farnamstreet The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching translated by Witter Bynner)
Paperback, 2001
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book