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Christopher Hitchens Book Recommendations (108 Books)

Christopher Hitchens was an English intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist, journalist, and columnist.

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Books Recommended by Christopher Hitchens

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Tortilla Flat

John Steinbeck

Source: "[The main character] manages to lay so many women that, afterward, even the females who didn’t receive his attentions prefer to claim, rather than appear to have been overlooked, that they were included, too." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: "One of the few faultless three-act plays ever written." - Christopher Hitchens

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History of the Conquest of Mexico

William H. Prescott

Source: "Emboldened by the sheer bulk of the thing, I swerved into [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Southern California

An Island on the Land

Carey McWilliams

Source: "Was, and still is, considered more or less the book to beat." - Christopher Hitchens

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The End of Faith

Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Sam Harris

Source: "[The author is] one of the finest volunteers in this cause." - Christopher Hitchens

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In Between the Sheets

Ian McEwan

Source: "By then, 'everyone' had been mesmerized by [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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First Love, Last Rites

Ian McEwan

Source: "By then, 'everyone' had been mesmerized by [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Minty Alley

C.L.R. James

Source: "Plainly influential on the early writings of V.S. Naipaul." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Long Affair

Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Source: "The most eloquent of the anti-Jeffersonian nonfictions." - Christopher Hitchens

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Maps for Lost Lovers

Nadeem Aslam

Source: Christopher Hitchens said he was reading this book in a C-SPAN interview in 2007.

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The Adventures of Augie March

Saul Bellow

Source: "[The author's] most superbly rendered fictional creation." - Christopher Hitchens

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The New York Intellectuals

The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s

Alan M. Wald

Source: "Shows the germinal, contradictory force of revolutionary politics." - Christopher Hitchens

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Memoirs of a Revolutionary

Victor Serge

Source: "One of the finest autobiographies of that same century." - Christopher Hitchens

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Crime and Punishment

Source: "I couldn’t sleep for two nights after first reading [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: "Leaves an ineradicable 'scratch on the mind.'" - Christopher Hitchens

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Move Your Shadow

South Africa, Black and White

Joseph Lelyveld

Source: "The best anatomy of the topic that I've yet read." - Christopher Hitchens

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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2

A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945

Victor Klemperer

Source: "Don't start [this book] late at night, you will not get to bed." - Christopher Hitchens

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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1

A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

Victor Klemperer

Source: "Don't start [this book] late at night, you will not get to bed." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Satanic Verses

A Novel

Salman Rushdie

Source: "[Appears] not to be written by [a human being]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Children in Exile

James Fenton

Source: "An essential complement to their predecessors." - Christopher Hitchens

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Shameful Act

Taner Akçam

Source: "The only Turkish historian to have talked of genocide." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Bomb in My Garden

The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind

Mahdi Obeidi

Source: "A memoir by Saddam Hussein’s chief nuclear physicist." - Christopher Hitchens

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Defending the West

A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism

Ibn Warraq

Source: "The best critique of ['Orientalism' by Edward W. Said]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Fireflies

Shiva Naipaul

Source: "One of the great tragicomic novels of our day." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Pity of It All

A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933

Amos Elon

Source: "The best history of the German-Jewish relationship." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Rachel Papers

Martin Amis

Source: "A huge critical and commercial grand slam." - Christopher Hitchens

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Power

A Radical View

Steven Lukes

Source: "[The author was] more celebrated still for [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Source: "Discourses on aspects of the Bacchic and the Dionysian." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Cruel Sea

Nicholas Monsarrat

Source: "[I read this book] about 50 times before I was 15." - Christopher Hitchens

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Burr

A Novel

Gore Vidal

Source: "The best fictional re-creation of the period." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Donkeys

Alan Clark

Source: "A rugged study of British Great War generalship." - Christopher Hitchens

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Covenant with Death

John Harris

Source: "An anti-war British novel of the trenches." - Christopher Hitchens

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Anarchist Portraits

Paul Avrich

Source: "Charming and melancholy album of silhouettes." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works

William Shakespeare

Source: Christopher Hitchens mentioned Shakespeare's work in the "Hitch-22" book.

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Girl, 20

Kingsley Amis

Source: "[The author]'s neglected masterpiece novel." - Christopher Hitchens

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Bitter Lemons

Lawrence Durrell

Source: "[The author's] beautiful but patronizing memoir." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Silent Angel

Heinrich Böll

Source: "Unflinchingly discusses the ruins and the corpses." - Christopher Hitchens

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Voltaire's Bastards

The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

John Ralston Saul

Source: "[The author's] critique of impure reason." - Christopher Hitchens

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Principia Mathematica

Volume One

Bertrand Russell

Source: "[The author's] most imposing work is probably [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Jaguar Smile

Salman Rushdie

Source: "About a voyage to revolutionary Nicaragua." - Christopher Hitchens

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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Source: "I was fairly soon immersed in [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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The Caged Virgin

An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Source: "I would urge you all to go out and buy [this book]." - Christopher Hitchens

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The World Is What It Is

The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul

Patrick French

Source: "Astonishing (and astonishingly authorized) biography." - Christopher Hitchens

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In Flanders Fields

The 1917 Campaign

Leon Wolff

Source: "A revisionist history of the First World War." - Christopher Hitchens

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