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Roger Bennett's Book Recommendations

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Roger Bennett is a British-American writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker, best known as one half of the soccer podcast and TV show, Men in Blazers. His wide-ranging reading interests include music, history, and memoirs.

11 books recommended

πŸ“š Books Recommended by Roger Bennett 11

A New Formation

A New Formation

by Calum Jacobs

"Most important football book you will read this year."

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"Most important football book you will read this year πŸ™Œ"

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150 Glimpses of the Beatles

150 Glimpses of the Beatles

by Craig Brown

"Incredible book. Craig Brown is such an intelligent storyteller. The structure of the book is as riveting as the content is vivid πŸ™Œ #ABook"

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Horizontal Vertigo

Horizontal Vertigo

by Juan Villoro

"This book is incredible."

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"This book is incredible. Juan Villoro is such a good storyteller. Each tale stuffed with compassion, humor, and humanity. Could not love this more πŸ‡²πŸ‡½"

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Caste

Caste

by Isabel Wilkerson

"6 Best Books I’ve read in lockdown so far. Would love to hear yours πŸ™Œ"

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"Roger Bennett recommended this book on Twitter."

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We Germans

We Germans

by Alexander Starritt

"Loved this book. A daring novel exploring whether it’s possible to β€œdo evil without meaning to.” Empathetic, taut and morally challenging in the most thought provoking of ways πŸ™Œ"

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Together in a Sudden Strangeness

Together in a Sudden Strangeness

by Alice Quinn

"Incredible, Incredible Book ?."

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"Incredible, Incredible Book πŸ™Œ"

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Breasts and Eggs

Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

"Magical storytelling about Japanese womanhood, and working class-life that is as hilarious as it is searing."

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"magical storytelling about Japanese womanhood, and working class-life that is as hilarious as it is searing"

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Twilight of Democracy

Twilight of Democracy

by Anne Applebaum

"The book which helped me best understand the tectonic plates shifting in the world around us."

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"The book which helped me best understand the tectonic plates shifting in the world around us"

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Memoirs of a Kamikaze

Memoirs of a Kamikaze

by Kazuo Odachi

"Harrowing, human read for war memoir aficionados ? ??."

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"Incredible Book. Personal narrative unlike any I have ever encountered, focusing on the futility of sacrifice. Harrowing, human read for war memoir aficionados πŸ™Œ πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ #ABook"

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Surviving Autocracy

Surviving Autocracy

by Masha Gessen

"Roger Bennett recommended this book on Twitter."

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Birdsong in a Time of Silence

by Steven Lovatt

"This incredible book is for all of us who have been uplifted during lockdown by the joy of bird song πŸ¦πŸ™Œ"

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