Collection Seven: Potluck

COLLECTION SEVEN: POTLUCK

Some books defy categorization, and some are so unique they deserve their own space in any list. This group of books includes a little bit of everything: from paintings to photography, from war to Shakespeare, and an insight into genetics for good measure.

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Gullah Images by Jonathan Green

A collection of 180 works by celebrated artist Jonathan Green with a foreword by Pat Conroy


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Of Love and War by Lynsey Addario

A stunning and personally curated selection of Lynsey Addario’s photojournalistic work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa


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Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play by Dominic Dromgoole

The Director of London’s Globe Theatre describes its 450th anniversary undertaking to stage Shakespeare’s Hamlet in every country in the world


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Fools & Mortals by Bernard Cornwell

The story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shakespeare’s estranged younger brother


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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt

World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers


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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer

A profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation