The phrase “dad book” may bring to mind any number of 500-plus-page World War II history tomes, but true dad lit is of course as varied as the many kinds of dads out there
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$16 at Amazon Buy $15 at Bookshop Buy For the dad who can’t get enough WWII history The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson $29 $32 now 9% off $29 From Erik Larson, author of noted dad book The Devil in the White City, this book looks to diaries, archival documents, and some recently released intelligence reports to describe what daily life was like for Churchill and his family as he led the British during World War II.
$17 at Amazon Buy $23 at Bookshop Buy For the dad who’s your museum buddy Jordan Casteel: Within Reach $45 now 9% off $41 Photo: Courtesy of the publisher Whether or not he made it to the Jordan Casteel show at the New Museum this past spring, he’ll appreciate the corresponding exhibition catalogue, which collects 40 of the artist’s moving portraits, including those of her students and former classmates from Yale, subway riders, and street vendors in Harlem.
$18 at Amazon Buy $17 at Bookshop Buy For the dad who loves a New York novel Deacon King Kong by James McBride $28 now 32% off $19 Photo: Courtesy of the publisher Set in 1969 in a housing project in south Brooklyn, this novel chronicles the ramifications after a church deacon known as Sportcoat shoots a drug dealer, and how the event affects the neighbors, churchgoers, police, and the Italian mob.
$27 at Sankofa Buy $24 at Barnes & Noble Buy For the dad who recently got into My Brilliant Friend The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri $18 now 33% off $12 Photo: Courtesy of the publisher This novel, set in rural southern Tuscany, follows a decade-long feud between two families, one of local ranchers and the other a cosmopolitan family from Rome.
$24 at Bookshop Buy For the environmentalist dad The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming $27 now 33% off $18 Our New York Magazine colleague David Wallace-Wells’s book on climate change has been called an “epoch-defining book,” and would make an ideal book for the dad who calls warm winter weather “ominous” and wants to learn more about how global warming affects politics, technology, and nature.
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