The US has a new reader-in-chief. Bill Gates is now the natural successor to Barack Obama and Oprah. This year, Gates has several new recommendations including three memoirs:
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
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Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian,...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE by director Ron...
The Heart: A Novel
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Winner of the Wellcome Book Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Just...
Medicine Non-fiction
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight...
Dystopian fiction has been a staple on the best-seller lists for years. So here are the New York Times' best postapocalyptic novels for 2017:
Void Star: A Novel
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A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far...
Science fiction
New York 2140
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As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents...
Science fiction environment
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With The Player and The Return of the Player, Michael Tolkin established himself as the master...
Science fiction fiction
Walkaway: A Novel
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From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love,...
Science fiction fiction
American War
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An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one...
Fiction
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Bustle, an online American women's magazine, has compiled some hotly anticipated feminist books for this year:
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
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“This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and...
Gender Studies Feminism social issues
Hunger
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the...
Biography memoir social issues
Large Animals: Stories
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Jess Arndt’s striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling...
Fiction social issues
The H Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
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What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness,...
Gender studies
Too Much and Not the Mood
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From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes...
Gender studies essays
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Launched in 2006, the accolade is the largest literary prize in the world for young writers at £30,000. The prize is named after the Swansea-born writer, Dylan Thomas.
Dog Run Moon: Stories
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A construction worker is chased through the night by a shady local businessman whose dog he has...
The Essex Serpent
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Essex Serpent Strange News Out of Essex...'One of the most memorable historical novels of...
Pigeon: A Novel
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Iola and Pijin make up stories to test each other, stories of daring and adventure, of bad people...
Fiction
The Story of a Brief Marriage
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Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers....
Fiction social issues
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The votes for the 2017 Not the Booker prize have been counted and The Guardian have six books are going through to the shortlist stage of the competition.
Anything is Possible
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An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss from the No. 1 New York...
Man with a Seagull on His Head
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Under the intense summer sun on the Essex coast a gull falls from the sky and strikes an unassuming...
The Threat Level Remains Severe
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A new colleague and a mysterious admirer make life infinitely more interesting for House of Commons...
Mystery fiction
The Ludlow Ladies’ Society
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Connie Carter has lost everybody and everything dear to her. To help nurse her grieving heart and to...
Fiction
Dark Chapter
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'Deftly written, pacey and unflinching, I could not put it down. Winnie Li is a rare talent with an...
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Founded in 2008 by Three Percent at the University or Rochester, the focus on finding the best books in translation from the past year has been constant.
Super Extra Grande
Yoss and David Frye
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“Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in Super Extra Grande…. Its author...
Science fiction
Moshi Moshi
Banana Yoshimoto and Asa Yoneda
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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown...
Fiction
My Marriage
Jakob Wassermann and Michael Hofmann
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Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There...
Thriller
Vampire in Love
Margaret Jull Costa and Enrique Vila-Matas
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“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New...
Fiction
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Susan Bernofsky and Yoko Tawada
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Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the...
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Forget jewellery and and bottles of wine. This year, a go-to holiday gift is a gorgeous, new coffee-table book.
At Home with Dogs and Their Designers: Sharing a Stylish Life
Susanna Salk and Stacey Bewkes
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America's leading interior designers show readers how to live in the most stylish way with their...
Design photography
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
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The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important...
Biography photography
Dali: Les Diners de Gala
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“Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste … If you are a disciple of one...
Art food
Houseplants and Hot Sauce: A Seek-and-Find Book for Grown-Ups
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This cheeky seek and find features illustrated scenes from the life of a modern gal--from brunch...
New York Behind Closed Doors
Polly Devlin and Annie Schlecter
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A look inside the homes of New York’s artists, designers, writers, and social influencers. ...
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For every Wonder Woman, and Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 that raked in hundreds of millions at the box office this summer, there were half a dozen indies that dazzled audiences. Here are Time's list
Beach Rats (2017)
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On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare...
Drama
Patti Cake$ (2017)
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Fed up with life in her New Jersey hometown, Patricia Dombrowski, aka Patti Cake$, hopes to follow...
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
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Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing...
Columbus (2017)
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A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma....
Wind River (2000)
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Historical drama based on true-life events. Based on the memoirs of Pony Express rider Nick Wilson....
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Amid all the new tricks and twists of expensive recording studios brimming with expensive gear and excessive arrangements from eager producers, these reductionist albums speak out to Cool Hunting:
No Home of the Mind by Bing and Ruth
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New 2017 album ... now on 4AD! Percussive piano tones 'n' warbling tape delays from the minimal New...
dance electronic
A Crow Looked at Me by Mount Eerie
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A Crow Looked at Me is the eighth studio album by Mount Eerie, the solo project of American musician...
alternative rock
All This I Do for Glory by Colin Stetson
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"All this I do for glory" is a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy,...
alternative rock
Ecce Homo by Felicita
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The most surprising aspect of the album Ecce Homo is knowing what enigmatic London-based producer...
experimental instrumental
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Epic games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are great but a single player experience isn't always what you want. Without further ado, here are TechAdvisor's picks for the best games: