William Gibson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
William Gibson on X
Author of Neuromancer, The Peripheral, Agency… I’m also @greatdismal.bsky.social

Child of God
Cormac McCarthy
@Mandate33 @mdbell79 @allegra_hyde 3) “fiddlepeg and listened with a wrinkled face.” Cormac McCarthy, Child Of God
Paperback, 1993
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell
RT @openculture: The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear https://t.co/3nW6PimQ4L https://t.co/4El2sA8F…
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The White Album
Joan Didion
RT @michikokakutani: My 1979 interview with Joan Didion in which she talks about “The White Album,” growing up in California, and how she b…
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Teleportation Accident
Ned Beauman
Anything by Ned Beauman. From The Teleportation Accident, his first, to Venomous Lumpsucker, his latest. https://t.co/J9d1icM5vN
Out of stock

Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant
RT @WindCruel: I been thinkin about this section in Lauren Berlant's Cruel Optimism about William Gibson's Pattern Recognition a lot lately…
Paperback, 2011
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Just found a copy of Asbury’s The Gangs Of New York in the tiny free library in front of a Kits condo. Read Borge’s exquisite introduction while waiting for breakfast. Man, did he ever know how to be a fan.
Paperback, 2008
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Laura Spinney
RT @jr_carpenter: Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the world (2017) — pretty darned elucidating on how…
Paperback, 2018
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City
Iain Sinclair
“My sense was that London, my home for fifty years, was being centrifugally challenged to the point of obliteration.” —Iain Sinclair, The Last London, 2017
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Unsophisticated Arts
Barbara Jones
5) to permanent deification in wealthy drawing rooms and museums.)”. — Barbara Jones, The Unsophisticated Arts, 1951
Hardcover, 2013
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Venomous Lumpsucker
Ned Beauman
Anything by Ned Beauman. From The Teleportation Accident, his first, to Venomous Lumpsucker, his latest. https://t.co/J9d1icM5vN
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book