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Andrew Solomon
A National Book Award winner and Pulitzer finalist, Solomon writes about psychology, culture, and politics, and is best known for his opus, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression . He has said, “Whenever I return to reading, I feel a great relief in it, and am awakened to other possibilities of language and thoughts.”
Below are Andrew Solomon’s favorite books, available to purchase as a set or individually. See the full list...
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
This book has the virtue of being the most perfect novel ever written. It manages to blend the miniature world of an uninteresting town with a profound reckoning with the human heart in all its vagaries. Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope. It’s seductively readable, free of pretension, and written with a rare clear-eyed kindness.
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The Complete Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
A life’s work may occupy shelf upon shelf, or all the genius may be distilled down to a concentrate of wisdom, and I would love to think that I’ve ever thought anything as clearly as Bishop has thought each of her poems. My favorite lines forever:
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.
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Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
There has been no finer nonfiction written in the last century than this penetrating examination not only of a particular family and its travails (written with the complex plot of a Tolstoy novel), but also of the ways in which our society is broken, of a system that congratulates itself as democracy and yet is intractably inequitable. This book has no agenda and makes no argument; it simply reveals the truth of the country in which we live, and allows us to formulate our own call to action.
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Ari Shapiro
$ 200.85
The Wake
Paul Kingsnorth
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Asif Kapadia
From: $ 142.90
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind
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Avni Doshi
$ 169.78
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
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Becky Ann Baker
$ 128.88
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
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Betty Fussell
$ 201.77
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Bill Gates
$ 241.86
The Great Gatsby
F.Scott Fitzgerald
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Bill Nye
From: $ 165.87
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
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Brandon Taylor
$ 176.79
Poems
Elizabeth Bishop
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Brendan Slocumb
$ 219.39
How the Word is Passed
Clint Smith
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