Books for World Television Day

By Coll Rowe | November 19 2025 | General

For World Television Day on November 21st, we recognize the significant impact that television has on decision making as well as being an ambassador for the entertainment industry. We are sharing a collection of books about television, a symbol of communication and globalization that educates, informs, and entertains.

I Like to Watch
I Like to Watch
Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Emily Nussbaum
9780525508984
From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic, a collection of “confident, dauntless criticism—smart and spiky, brilliantly sure of itself and the medium it depicts” (The New York Times).
$20.00 US
Jun 09, 2020
Paperback
384 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
The Nineties
The Nineties
A Book
Chuck Klosterman
9780735217966

Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else.

$18.00 US
Jan 31, 2023
Paperback
384 Pages
Penguin Books
Cue the Sun!
Cue the Sun!
The Invention of Reality TV
Emily Nussbaum
9780525509011
The rollicking saga of reality television, a cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer.
$19.00 US
Jul 01, 2025
Paperback
464 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
It's Not TV
It's Not TV
The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
Felix Gillette, John Koblin
9780593296196

Tells the surprising, fascinating story of HBO’s ascent, its groundbreaking influence on American business, technology, and popular culture, and its increasingly precarious position in the very market it created.

$28.00 US
Nov 01, 2022
Hardcover
416 Pages
Viking
On Locations
On Locations
Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and in the Film Industry
Mark Kamine
9781586424039

An inside look at the film industry for fans, students, and aspiring professionals — featuring a foreword by Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning creator of The White Lotus, Mike White.

$19.95 US
Feb 11, 2025
Paperback
208 Pages
Steerforth
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