Max Porter's Top Book Recommendations
Want to know what books Max Porter recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Max Porter's favorite book recommendations of all time.
Recommended by Max Porter, and 1 others. Max PorterAnne Carson teaches you is that you can always be clever enough, you can always work harder, you can always train yourself to understand more. (Source)
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In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English we meet both universal fairy-tale figures—thieves and heroes, kings and peasants, beautiful damsels and terrifying witches, enchanted children and crafty animals—and such uniquely Russian characters as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a centuries-old Russian storytelling tradition by the outstanding Russian ethnographer Aleksandr... more
Recommended by Max Porter, and 1 others. Max PorterIt was like going back to a medicine box of two-dimensional things – it felt like a cool drink of water after a lot of sawdust. (Source)
Recommended by Max Porter, and 1 others. Max PorterThe book is a kind of love letter to frustrated males, to when you get into one of those moods and there’s no turning back. (Source)
James MillerEveryone is speaking in a kind of eccentric, quasi-Chaucerian idiom. That is what I really liked about it – the unfamiliarity of the language because it is set in this post-apocalyptic world. (Source)
Max PorterThe joy of Riddley Walker is that it’s a fully realized universe and it never lets up – it’s very, very difficult all the way through (Source)
James MillerEveryone is speaking in a kind of eccentric, quasi-Chaucerian idiom. That is what I really liked about it – the unfamiliarity of the language because it is set in this post-apocalyptic world. (Source)
After enduring the Trojan War, Odysseus begins the treacherous journey home to Ithaca. On the way, he faces ravenous monsters and vengeful gods. But the real battle awaits, as his kingdom is under siege by unruly suitors vying for his wife’s hand—and his son’s head. To reclaim his throne and save his family, Odysseus must rely on his wits…and help from the unpredictable gods.
Homer’s The Odyssey was composed around 700 BC. It is one of the earliest epics in existence and remains one of the most influential works of literature today.
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Ted TurnerWhen I got to college, I was a classics major, and that was mainly the study of Greek - and to a lesser extent Roman - history and culture, and that fascinated me: the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid by Virgil. (Source)
Max PorterI still have an image of Odysseus in my head from when I was a child – he’s very Anglo-Saxon and stubbly, a bit like Michael Fassbender (Source)
Janine di GiovanniThe thing I loved about Ulysses was that he’s so in love with adventure and with love. (Source)
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