Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Nov 16, 2017
The Washington Post's annual survey of the best books includes 10 they think are exceptionally rewarding:
Sing, Unburied, Sing
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A searing and profound odyssey bringing the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first century...
Saints for All Occasions
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
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The definitive account of Barack Obama’s life before he became the 44th president of the United...
biography politics
Lincoln in the Bardo
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The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book...
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Julie Klausner recommended In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences in Books (curated)
Dana (24 KP) rated English 100 Literary Theory Course Backet in Books
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Nov 8, 2017
Whether you’re a fan of Krysten Ritter or Brandon Sanderson, there’s something for every reader to love in November’s most anticipated books.
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 – 1992
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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in...
biography
Oathbringer: The Stormlight Archive Book Three
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From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new,...
The City of Brass: Daevabad Trilogy
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Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18-century Cairo,...
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Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies
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Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon—the legacy of P. T....
history politics social issues
Artemis
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon,...
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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Death Comes to Pemberley in Books
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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list
Oct 5, 2017
The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:
The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics
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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...
The Buried Giant
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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...
An Artist of the Floating World
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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...
When We Were Orphans
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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...
Never Let Me Go
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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...
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