bookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcover
bookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcover
bookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcover
bookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcoverbookcover
undefined

By Destination: Books

Recent postings from The Book Shopper blog refer to these excellent books.

bookcover for Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

Howard Bryant 

Book icon

Paperback

$21.99

$20.45

An excellent biography for baseball fans that need something worthy to read in the off season

bookcover for Tremor

Tremor

Teju Cole 

Book icon

Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

Sebaldian -- which is word I made up as it reminds one of a W.G. Sebald novel

bookcover for My Struggle, Book Three

My Struggle, Book Three

Karl Ove Knausgaard, 

Don Bartlett 

Book icon

Hardback

$27.00

$25.11

Selected as one of the best Books Read in 2024

bookcover for My Struggle: Book 2

My Struggle: Book 2

Karl Ove Knausgaard, 

Don Bartlett 

Book icon

Paperback

$27.00

$25.11

Selected as one of the Best Books Read in 2024

bookcover for Slumberland

Slumberland

Paul Beatty 

Book icon

Paperback

$16.00

$14.88

Selected as one of the Best Books Read in 2024

bookcover for The Book Shopper: A Life in Review

The Book Shopper: A Life in Review

Murray Browne 

Book icon

Paperback

$17.19

This is the book that started it all -- holds up well.

bookcover for Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer 

Book icon

Paperback

$18.95

$17.62

Selected as one of the Best Books Read in2024

bookcover for Grant

Grant

Ron Chernow 

Book icon

Paperback

$24.00

$22.32

A sweeping saga of one of country's most underrated Presidents

bookcover for From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia

From Empire to Revolution: Sir James Wright and the Price of Loyalty in Georgia

Greg Brooking 

Book icon

Paperback

$34.44

Covers what caused the Revolutionary War in Georgia via its first governor.

bookcover for Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman 

Book icon

Paperback

$19.99

$18.59

Hartman uses a unique voice and style to bring to life a forgotten history of these women.

bookcover for Learning to Talk: Stories

Learning to Talk: Stories

Hilary Mantel 

Book icon

Hardback

$19.99

$18.59

A short, bittersweet evocative memoir. Best books read in 2023

bookcover for Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss 

Book icon

Hardback

$34.99

$32.53

Thorpe's athletic career in football, baseball, and track and a look at the lifelong prejudices Thorpe encountered as Sac and Fox Indian, born in 1887.

bookcover for An Honorable Exit

An Honorable Exit

Éric Vuillard, 

Mark Polizzotti 

Book icon

Hardback

$23.99

$22.31

bookcover for The Ministry for the Future

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson 

Book icon

Hardback

$30.00

$27.90

Ultimately a hopeful book (speculative novel) on how the planet might look in the near future.

bookcover for Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will

Judith Schalansky, 

Christine Lo 

Book icon

Hardback

$30.00

$27.90

A rare mix of essay and infographics and book art.

bookcover for An Inventory of Losses

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky, 

Jackie Smith 

Book icon

Paperback

$18.95

$17.62

Scholarly and personal. Schlansky's Atlas is better, but this is more readily available and good reading.

bookcover for The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

Jonathan Franzen 

Book icon

Paperback

$17.00

$15.81

Is Franzen a misanthropic optimist or optimistic misanthrope? Find out.

bookcover for Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S. C. Gwynne 

Book icon

Paperback

$18.00

$16.74

If it hadn't been for the Comanches, Texas would be in Mexico.

bookcover for Against Amazon: And Other Essays

Against Amazon: And Other Essays

Jorge Carrión, 

Peter Bush 

Book icon

Paperback

$16.95

$15.76

More reasons not to buy your books at Amazon.

The Book Shopper Blog has been posting "musings about book and book culture" since 2008.  It began with The Book Shopper: A Life in Review (2009) published by Paul Dry Books.  Destination: Books is an independent popup and online book shop. Murray Browne is both Creator and Destroyer of the blog and the book shop. This book is made up of the best books he's read in the last couple of years.