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Michael Pollan's Reading List

Getting to read fiction purely for pleasure is the carrot I hold out for myself as a reward for the work of reporting and writing, says the author, whose new book is This Is Your Mind on Plants.

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By the Book: Michael Pollan (2021)

NYT By the Book column (2021-07-08).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of The Overstory
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · Buy on Amazon
"The Overstory, by Richard Powers, is a book that, the further I am from reading it, looms larger and larger in my imagination."
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · Buy on Amazon
"My mother recommended it, and I was astonished by how powerful it is. And by how a prominent Black writer could claim the freedom to write a novel in which race doesn't figure at all."
On Drugs
David Lenson · Buy on Amazon
"David Lenson's On Drugs is the smartest book I've read on the role of psychoactive compounds in our lives and culture."
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Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake · Buy on Amazon
"Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life and Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature, were both full of revelations as well as gorgeous prose."
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf · Buy on Amazon
"Andrea Wulf's biography of Alexander von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature, were both full of revelations as well as gorgeous prose."
Food Politics
Marion Nestle · Buy on Amazon
"Three books shaped my understanding of food and agriculture as a system: In the U.S. context, Food Politics, by Marion Nestle."
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Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser · Buy on Amazon
"Three books shaped my understanding of food and agriculture as a system: Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser."
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Stuffed and Starved
Raj Patel · Buy on Amazon
"Three books shaped my understanding of food and agriculture as a system: Stuffed and Starved, by Raj Patel."
Coffeeland
Augustine Sedgewick · Buy on Amazon
"I learned about this in a terrific work of history published last year: Coffeeland, by Augustine Sedgewick."
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The Curse of Bigness
Tim Wu · Buy on Amazon
"Tim Wu's The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age."

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