Two of the year’s most highly anticipated books are on this week’s New York Times list of recommendations:
Bluebird, Bluebird
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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...
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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
E.J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann
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A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...
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Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir
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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...
Biography
The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth
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The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...
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We’re nearing the season for ghost stories — or in some cases un-ghost stories and cautionary tales about what happens when we try too hard to put our history behind us.
Fresh Complaint
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The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides,...
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A Properly Unhaunted Place
William Alexander and Kelly Murphy
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From National Book Award–winning author William Alexander comes a wryly humorous story about two...
Children
The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse
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Early one morning a mouse met a wolf and was quickly gobbled up... When a woeful mouse is swallowed...
Children
The Twelve-Mile Straight
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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural...
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Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
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The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the...
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Several seismic events occurred in the past week including the release of a new John Green novel, “Turtles All the Way Down,” and the Ron Chernow biography, “Grant.”
Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series
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A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, a 12-year-old American born girl raised mostly in Nigeria, was inducted...
Fantasy history
Complete Stories: Kurt Vonnegut
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Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost...
Fiction anthology
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919
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Published in 1998 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History, GOTHAM: A History of New York to 1898...
history geography
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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'A top sleep scientist argues that sleep is more important for our health than diet or exercise' The...
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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World
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What moral values do human beings hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically,...
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Books about Russian history and current events round out our list this week, from biographies of Lenin and Stalin to Masha Gessen’s study of post-Soviet life, “The Future Is History.”
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
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Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English...
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For Two Thousand Years
Mihail Sebastian and Philip O Ceallaigh
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'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For...
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
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‘A stunning debut – because there is nothing debut about it’ A.M. Homes Aged 13, Joan Ashby...
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion From an Atheist’s Point of View
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Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many...
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There is something for everyone this week, from difficult, essential history to fiction set in the 18th century to several new books for young readers.
GOOD NIGHT, PLANET
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In this tender, funny tale for early readers from internationally renowned cartoonist Liniers, a...
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Tumble & Blue
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Circus Mirandus comes the magic-infused story of a...
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Stars Beneath Our Feet
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A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death...
children
After the Fall
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After the fall, Humpty Dumpty is a broken egg. Life is tough: he's so afraid of heights, he can't...
children comedy
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the...
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Politics plays the leading role in this week’s list of recommendations, starting with Joe Biden’s memoir about his son Beau’s death from brain cancer in 2015:
Catapult: Stories
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"Fridlund writes of families, marriage, and childhood as if our received wisdom--what we thought we...
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The Last Ballad
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The author of the celebrated bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home returns with this eagerly awaited...
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to...
The Shadow District
Arnaldur Indridason and Victoria Cribb
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OLD CRIMES, NEW CONSEQUENCES THE PAST In wartime Reykjavik, a young woman is found strangled...
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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"A deft character study of a president."--The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on...
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The Times UK team travels from our ancient past to a robotic future:
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was...
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This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
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Adam Kay was a junior doctor from 2004 until 2010, before a devastating experience on a ward caused...
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
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The scientific story of first impressions--and why the snap character judgments we make from faces...
psychology science
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there is no person better qualified or...
What Doesn’t Kill Us: How Freezing Water, Extreme Altitude and Environmental Conditioning
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A New York Times bestseller Our ancestors crossed deserts, mountains, and oceans without even a...
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You’ll find a pair of satirical Chinese novellas, a symphonic look at Germany’s fraught history and, in Leni Zumas’s “Red Clocks,” a dystopian vision of American patriarchy in this week's selection.
Gorilla and the Bird
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The story of a young man fighting to recover from a devastating psychotic break and the mother who...
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
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The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson's three daughters--two white and free, one black and...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
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In 2015, Noah Strycker, a young American birder, became the first person to see more than half of...
The Years, Months, Days
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A terrible drought hits the population of a small mountain village and they flee to better climes....
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
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As the President of the United States, Donald Trump continually voices admiration for brutal...
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I thought it would be fun to keep a list of all the movies I've watched this year for the first time - new and old.
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
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In the sequel to the 2015 global smash, father and stepfather, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) and Brad (Will...
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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
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Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end...
Wonder (2017)
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A young boy named August Pullman, who was born with a rare facial deformity, tries to fit in at a...
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Suburbicon (2017)
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‘Suburbicon’ is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured...
Paddington (2015)
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After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear (Ben Whishaw) makes...
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