Zack Budryk 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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Zack Budry is an environment reporter. Environment/energy reporter at @TheHill. Cohost of @Stim4Stim. Gradual novelist. Chief of da Autism Police. Heart in Boston, body in pain. Proud @hillguild man.

The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias
Only about a third of the way into @Gabino_Iglesias’ “The Devil Takes You Home” but there’s one of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever encountered in the medium (in a good way, he’s a master)
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
On the historical fiction side: Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead The Cold Millions by Jess Walter Ashes of Fiery Weather by Kathleen Donohoe Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart https://t.co/mjE3l5efZ7
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
Patrick Wyman
@nina_ecarg Did you read The Verge by @Patrick_Wyman? It does a similar thing for the period between 1490-1530 with Isabella for state power, Martin Luther for the church, etc.
Paperback, 2022
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Carrie
Stephen King
First Stephen King book: Everything's Eventual Last King book: Billy Summers Next King book: Whichever one he brings Holly Gibney back for Scariest King movie: Carrie Best King movie: Misery Favorite King villain: Annie Wilkes https://t.co/oVl0Ki5wLm
Paperback, Mass Market, 2011
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Billy Summers
Stephen King
First Stephen King book: Everything's Eventual Last King book: Billy Summers Next King book: Whichever one he brings Holly Gibney back for Scariest King movie: Carrie Best King movie: Misery Favorite King villain: Annie Wilkes https://t.co/oVl0Ki5wLm
Paperback, Mass Market, 2023
$11.99$5.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick Perlstein
@TRENAUGUSTUS @saagSZN @ABHsLaw There's a great section in Rick Perlstein's Reaganland about how the party tried to manufacture enthusiasm for John Connally in 1980 and completely ate shit
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
Rick Perlstein
One of the funniest parts of Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" is the chapter about how the establishment tried to coalesce around John Connally, this strapping, swaggering cowboy, for 1980, and no actual voters had the slightest interest https://t.co/HMN5CenfvX
Paperback, 2021
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dracula
Teratak Publishing
McKellen Richard III is so so good, Bram Stoker's Dracula levels of "Nothing else looks like this" https://t.co/4EMp1YBBwt
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Many are saying this would be the perfect time for Disney+ to finally put up the 1983 adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes
Paperback, 2017
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20th Century Ghosts
Joe Hill
@crulge Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts"
Paperback, 2008
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