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From the poet Eileen Myles’s memoir about life with a beloved dog to Attica Locke’s murder mystery set in Texas to N. K. Jemisin’s conclusion of her award-winning Broken Earth fantasy trilogy, here are NYT's top books of the week.

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New York Times Top Books This Week 05/10

Two of the year’s most highly anticipated books are on this week’s New York Times list of recommendations:

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...

Thriller

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...

Politics social issues

Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir

Eileen Myles

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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

N.K. Jemisin

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...

Science fiction

At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

Adam Gopnik

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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...

Biography

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Goose Willis (14 KP) rated Murder on the Orient Express (2017) in Movies

Nov 26, 2017

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Possibly the worst murder mystery "revelation" I can think of outside of "it was all a dream." Who did it? EVERYONE. Indeed, if you guessed basically any of the characters on screen to be the culprit, you were correct. UGH.

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Shakespeare and Hathaway in TV

May 30, 2018

Jo joyner (2 more)

Mark benton

Storylines

A nice murder mystery show that was on week day afternoons rather good entertaing show jo joyner and mark benton are both good as the leads solving mysteries and murders hope they make a second season

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated iZombie - Season 3 in TV

Nov 7, 2018

I zombie (2 more)

The difference personalities

Rose mclver

Love watching on Netflix can't get enough murder of the week with a twist. Rose mclver is brillant as I zombie as she shows off the different personalises of the deceased victims thumbs up

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VoxB (3 KP) rated My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark in Podcasts

Jan 8, 2019 (Updated Jan 8, 2019)

Engaging (2 more)

Humourous

Brilliant hosts

Ads (1 more)

They can go off on tangents

SSDDM

Feels like you're included in a conversation between 2 friends. They are engaging and hilarious and have a warmness you may not expect from a show about murder.

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Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Gimme a Kiss in Books

Dec 31, 2019

MURDER AND MAYHEM BECAUSE OF A COLD SORE! Yeah, it's every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. BTW, this is the book mentioned in [b:Fall into Darkness|138000|Fall into Darkness|Christopher Pike|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172091933s/138000.jpg|2774916].

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First Love, Last Rites

Ian McEwan

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Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out...

Angel Olsen recommended The Prisoner of Heaven in Books (curated)

"I’m really into Carlos Ruiz Zafon, too. He writes a lot about love and incest and murder and war. I just finished one of his books called The Prisoner of Heaven. The title is kind of whack, but it was awesome."

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Kelly MacDonald recommended The Driver’s Seat in Books (curated)

"I read a thriller by mistake! Spark introduces us to a fragile woman traveling to Italy on her own then tells us early on that she will be murdered there. It’s a deconstructed murder mystery, a mind unravelling. It’s dark."

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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 7, 2017

Goose Willis (14 KP) rated Murder on the Orient Express (2017) in Movies

Nov 26, 2017

Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Shakespeare and Hathaway in TV

May 30, 2018

Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated iZombie - Season 3 in TV

Nov 7, 2018

VoxB (3 KP) rated My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark in Podcasts

Jan 8, 2019 (Updated Jan 8, 2019)

Sarah Betts (103 KP) rated Gimme a Kiss in Books

Dec 31, 2019

Angel Olsen recommended The Prisoner of Heaven in Books (curated)

Kelly MacDonald recommended The Driver’s Seat in Books (curated)