By Destination: Books
Recent postings from The Book Shopper blog refer to these excellent books.
Howard Bryant
Paperback
$21.99
$20.45
An excellent biography for baseball fans that need something worthy to read in the off season
Teju Cole
Paperback
$17.00
$15.81
Sebaldian -- which is word I made up as it reminds one of a W.G. Sebald novel
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Don Bartlett
Hardback
$27.00
$25.11
Selected as one of the best Books Read in 2024
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
Don Bartlett
Paperback
$27.00
$25.11
Selected as one of the Best Books Read in 2024
Murray Browne
Paperback
$17.19
This is the book that started it all -- holds up well.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback
$18.95
$17.62
Selected as one of the Best Books Read in2024
Ron Chernow
Paperback
$24.00
$22.32
A sweeping saga of one of country's most underrated Presidents
Greg Brooking
Paperback
$34.44
Covers what caused the Revolutionary War in Georgia via its first governor.
Saidiya Hartman
Paperback
$19.99
$18.59
Hartman uses a unique voice and style to bring to life a forgotten history of these women.
Hilary Mantel
Hardback
$19.99
$18.59
A short, bittersweet evocative memoir. Best books read in 2023
David Maraniss
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.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Hardback
$30.00
$27.90
Ultimately a hopeful book (speculative novel) on how the planet might look in the near future.
Judith Schalansky,
Christine Lo
Hardback
$30.00
$27.90
A rare mix of essay and infographics and book art.
Judith Schalansky,
Jackie Smith
Paperback
$18.95
$17.62
Scholarly and personal. Schlansky's Atlas is better, but this is more readily available and good reading.
Jonathan Franzen
Paperback
$17.00
$15.81
Is Franzen a misanthropic optimist or optimistic misanthrope? Find out.
S. C. Gwynne
Paperback
$18.00
$16.74
If it hadn't been for the Comanches, Texas would be in Mexico.
Jorge Carrión,
Peter Bush
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.