From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, the wonders of science and the lessons of history, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year:
To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to...
Called to Account: How Corporate Bad Behaviour and Government Waste Combine to Cost us Millions
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In a recent study of 61 hospitals, it was found that they bought 21 different types of A4 paper, 652...
politics
Life After Life: A Guildford Four Memoir
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What is it like to spend 15 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit? Paddy Armstrong was...
biography crime true crime
A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
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A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring. With...
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Get your to-read list ready for 2018—it's going to be a good year.
Tangerine: A Novel
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'As if Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn and Patricia Highsmith had collaborated in a screenplay to be...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
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From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man,...
White Houses
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"Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my...
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
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"The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book,...
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Murder on the Orient Express
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Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover with special...
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her...
Apocalypticon
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Well, this isn't good. One second, everyone was going about their own business, and the next,...
Fiction Zombie Apocalypse End of the World Humor Adventure
Win (The Atlantis Grail Book 3)
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The Games are Forever! It’s one thing to Qualify and Compete… Now she must Win. Gwen...
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Keeper of the Wolves
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Victus, a wolf forced to change to the form of a man in the moonlight, lost everything the night he...
Fiction Romance Fantasy Werewolves
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Mostly teen/ young adult fantasy or real life romance books that I have read and thoroughly enjoyed. It takes a lot for me to commit to a series, so these all have something special.
Stalk me (Keatyn Chronicles book 1)
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Keatyn has everything she ever dreamed. Her life is following the script she wrote for the perfect...
Dangerous Girls
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Elise is dead. And someone must pay. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise and a group...
Talented (Talented Saga, #1)
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Block out thoughts. Talia Lyons has one goal at the McDonough School for the Talented: learn to...
A Harless Little Game
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Four years ago I lost my virginity on live, streaming television. Too bad I wasn’t awake for...
The Prince (Spy Girl book 1)
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An eighteen-year-old covert agent is pulled out of training before graduation by Black X, an...
Books that I have read and enjoyed reading (multiples times for some of them) and would recommend to others.
The Liar's Room
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ONE ROOM. TWO LIARS. NO WAY OUT... Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her...
The Watchmaker's Daughter
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India Steele has lost everything, her father, her fiancé and her employment and home. As a...
Flowers for Algernon
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The classic novel about a daring experiment in human intelligence Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor...
Young Adult books written by Asian authors. Books are #OwnVoices. Constant work in progress as I find books! (Feel free to comment below any books you find that may fit in this list.)
10 Things I Hate About Pinky
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The delightful follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie, which...
From Twinkle, with Love
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An aspiring teen filmmaker finds her voice and falls in love in this delightful romantic comedy from...
There's Something About Sweetie
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The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi, which...
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
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Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. One for every boy she's ever...
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A list of Drew Barrymore's top 10 favorite books to read from One Grand Books! https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/drew-barrymore/
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Oh, the Places You'll Go
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A brand new paperback edition of this classic tale from Dr. Seuss encouraging us to take life in our...
Women
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YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN Low life writer...
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A list of Cillian Murphy's top 10 favorite books to read from One Grand Books! https://onegrandbooks.com/shop/curators/cillian-murphy/
The Ginger Man
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Feckless, unwashed, charming, penurious Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield, Trinity College Law student,...
The Butcher Boy
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When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were...
Eclipse
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The first of John Banville's novels concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave,...
The Sportswriter
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Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age,...
Rabbit Angstrom
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Newly revised by the author for this edition, and printed together in one volume for the first time,...
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A list of Florence and the Machines's top 29 favorite Books to read from Radical Reads! https://radicalreads.com/florence-welch-favorite-books/
The Great Gatsby
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Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor...
Bone
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Raw and stark, the poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's breakthrough collection strip down her reflections on...
The Goldfinch
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother...
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