Books! Old and New! (But Mostly New)

I used a Saturday morning (and Saturday afternoon) hangover to set up a Bookshop.org page for New Escapologist.

It’s basically a curated list of book reccomendations where, if you buy anything from it, 10% of the sale comes to New Escapologist and another 10% goes to help indie bookshops. Assuming this all actually works, it’s a good idea.

Many of the books from the Missing Bibliography are on it, as well as some books mentioned here in the blog recently. There are some great ones from the Verso antiwork list as well.

It’s not perfect. Many of the books I read and recommend here at the blog are “old” and seem not to be available on Bookshop.org. And when I say “old,” some are less than ten years old and were always perfectly mainstream, so shopping on Bookshop.org is hardly a deep dive. Worst of all, almost none of my own admittedly niche books are available there, with the honorable exception I’m Out.

In any event, I managed to build a strong list of reccomended titles (covering our usual pet subjects of, for example, minimalism, Bohemia, small business, walking and travel, etc) that I can certainly add to.

Let me know of any woeful omissions you’d like to see added, dear reader, and which list you’d like to see it added to.

Moreover, if someone is in the mood to buy a book, please go ahead so we can see if this thing works.

The Good Life for Wage Slaves is sadly not available there (I’m not sure why: it’s registered with Ingram and Neilson, the big book databases) but it can still be bought, as ever, direct from the publisher with 100% of the takings now coming to us.