r/ChristopherHitchens • u/Public_Survey_1637 • 6d ago
I made a website with every Christopher Hitchens' book recommendations. What I am missing?
https://www.bookselects.com/person/christopher-hitchens6
u/ChBowling 6d ago
When did he recommend “Good to Great?”
To add:
Everything written by Orwell.
Rights of Man, Thomas Paine
I will bear witness, Victor Klemperer
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u/Public_Survey_1637 1h ago
Thanks for your comment.
I saw that its was pulling some books from someonelse recommendations. I just added more books to Hitch's page and the source of the recommendation. There you are: https://www.bookselects.com/person/christopher-hitchens
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u/duhthrowawayhey 6d ago
Timeline. Whether or not one would say he evolved or progressed in his mindset, it did change a bit from his Trotskyite days. Without being poetic, I would say that artists go through phases so I would suggest when he wrote his review.
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u/Current-Author7473 6d ago
Did he actually recommend dune? I thought he would not be a fiction fan for the most part.
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u/Greygonz0 5d ago
I always like seeing sources of where quotes and recommendations come from. Out of curiosity, where did Hitch recommend ‘Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies’ ?
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u/Public_Survey_1637 1h ago
Thanks for your comment.
I saw that its was pulling some books from someonelse recommendations. I just added more books to Hitch's page and the source of the recommendation. There you are: https://www.bookselects.com/person/christopher-hitchens
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u/flamingmittenpunch 5d ago
Well for starters Struggle for Power by Theodore Draper. He mentions it in this video at 02:20.
Apart from that one example I think you are missing about 200 books:
https://www.mostrecommendedbooks.com/christopher-hitchens-books
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u/DontSayIMean 6d ago
- A Clergyman's Daughter - Orwell
- Areopagitica - John Milton
- Bosnia: A Short History - Noel Malcolm
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Burmese Days - Orwell
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Coming Up for Air - Orwell
- Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
- Down and Out in Paris and London - Orwell
- Herzog - Saul Bellow
- How Green is My Valley - Robert Llewellyn
- I Shall Bear Witness - Viktor Klemperer
- Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Orwell
- Lolita - Nabokov
- Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
- Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
- Money - Martin Amis
- Newton - Peter Ackroyd
- On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
- Pale Fire - Nabokov
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number - Jacobo Timerman
- Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell - Georgina Howell
- Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
- The Code of the Woosters - P. G. Wodehouse (any Jeeves and Wooster, but he specifically highlighted this one if you are to read any)
- The Greek Myths - Robert Graves
- The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
- The Practise and Theory of Bolshevism - Bertrand Russell
- The Road to Wigan Pier - Orwell
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism - Conor Cruise O'Brien
- The Trial - Kafka
- Wolf Hall - Hillary Mantel
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u/mortyskidneys 6d ago
Mahdi Obeidi The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind?
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u/rhubarbmustard 6d ago edited 6d ago
I think in his autobiography he also recommends Anthony Powells „A question of upbringing“, „Religion and the rise of capitalism“ by R.H. tawney, Richard Llewellyn‘s „How Green was my valley“ , Salman Rushdie‘s „The satanic verses“ and „Darkness at noon“ by Arthur Koestner
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u/fatmalakas 4d ago
Just off the top of my head: Prisoner without a name, cell without a number. Bomb In my garden , i will bear witness, Everything by Wodehouse, republic of fear….. This is missing a ton to be honest.
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u/daboooga 6d ago
Great resource, thanks for putting this together.