9 must-read history books like Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell

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Similar categories in James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography
• history
• british literature
• literature
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• literary criticism

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• literature
• audiobook

"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Similar categories in Clare Carlisle's The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography
• history
• british literature
• literature
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• literary criticism

Similar categories in Laura Cumming's Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography
• history
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"

-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• literature
• audiobook
• british literature

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• poetry
• biography
• history
• british literature
• literature
• biography memoir
• religion
• nonfiction
• literary criticism

"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• poetry
• audiobook

"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography
• history
• british literature
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Similar categories in Anna Keay's The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• nonfiction
• history
• british literature

"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• british literature

"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

Similar categories in Isabella Hammad's Enter Ghost book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's Cuddy book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• poetry
• british literature

"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

Similar categories in Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography
• history
• literature
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook

"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Similar categories in Noreen Masud's A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• biography memoir
• biography
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"We tell stories to make them visible. Or we tell stories so that we don’t have to look at them any longer."

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is th…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"Supposedly, trauma transcends language and time, and is therefore untellable. Perhaps sometimes it does, and is. But I think traumatized people do know how to tell their stories. What’s difficult is …"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

"I was held captive by this unyielding, silent space, and I began to understand two things. The flatness wasn’t an absence - not in the way we might assume it is - but something strong and original an…"

-Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• religion

"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• religion
• british literature

"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

Similar categories in Matthew Hollis's The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• poetry
• biography
• history
• literature
• nonfiction
• literary criticism

Similar categories in Lucasta Miller's Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph book and Katherine Rundell's Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

• audiobook
• poetry
• biography
• history
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• literary criticism