James Miller's Top Book Recommendations
Want to know what books James Miller recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of James Miller's favorite book recommendations of all time.
Alom ShahaThe anti-nuclear message of When the Wind Blows is such an important one that I think Briggs was right not to sugar-coat it. (Source)
James MillerThis haunting graphic novel was a tender and tragic counterpart to the epic battles of Judge Dredd, and all the more memorable as a result. (Source)
James MillerThis haunting graphic novel was a tender and tragic counterpart to the epic battles of Judge Dredd, and all the more memorable as a result. (Source)
James MillerIt´s actually quite a subversive comic. It took a while, reading it as a kid, to realise this. (Source)
James MillerIt´s actually quite a subversive comic. It took a while, reading it as a kid, to realise this. (Source)
Five hundred years later, Dave's book is found by the inhabitants of Ham, a primitive archipelago in post-apocalyptic London, where it becomes a sacred text of biblical proportions... more
James MillerThere is a genius idea in this book … what I find very funny about his central conceit is that you have this misogynistic taxi-driver called Dave who rants away and his kids have been taken into custody. (Source)
James MillerThere is a genius idea in this book … what I find very funny about his central conceit is that you have this misogynistic taxi-driver called Dave who rants away and his kids have been taken into custody. (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)
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the... more
Oprah WinfreyIt's got everything that's grabbing the headlines in America right now. It's about race and class, the economy, culture, immigration and the danger of the us-versus-them mentality. And underneath it all, pumps the heart and soul of family love, the pursuit of happiness, and what home really means. (Source)
James MillerIt is such a powerful story … against an utterly bleak scenario you have the father and the son, and the novel builds up this incredibly emotive relationship. (Source)
Mark BoyleIn my view, The Road is the greatest novel ever written, and McCarthy one of the most important writers of the last hundred years. Its bleakness is interspersed with sentences so beautiful I wept. (Source)
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