Top Ten Books of 2017
Drum roll, please: We’ve gone back over the year’s book reviews to find the titles that Newsday reviewers liked best. What follows are 10 books — five nonfiction, five fiction — that entertained, educated, surprised, moved or astonished us in 2017. Special bonus: Any of them would make a ...
(This book was selected as one of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2017. For the rest of the list, click here.) EXIT WEST By Mohsin Hamid 231 pp. Riverhead Books. $26.
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI [David Grann] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - AMAZON EDITORS' PICK FOR THE BEST BOOK OF 2017 Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul.
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The first sentence of this National Book Award finalist takes no prisoners. “History has failed us, but no matter,” writes Min Jin Lee.
• Jennifer Egan is appearing at Sydney Writers festival 2018, held between 30 April - 6 May at Carriageworks. • Manhattan Beach is published by Little, Brown. To order a copy for £14.44 (RRP £16.99 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.
Anything Is Possible is a companion volume about the people Lucy came from, and their reactions to her latest successful publication, that memoir. As she has demonstrated beautifully in books like Amy and Isabelle and Olive Kitteridge, Strout is a master of the story cycle form most closely associated with Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng – review ... But the little girl’s Chinese mother has got her ... • Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng is published by ...
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy is published by Hamish Hamilton (£18.99). To order a copy for £12.99 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.
In its scrutiny of life outside America’s elite culture, this book can be read as a flyway companion volume to J. D. Vance’s best seller “Hillbilly Elegy” (2016). Other good stories are told in “Priestdaddy,” including the author’s decision to run away from home at 19 with a man she’d met on the internet.
18 Children’s Books About Poverty and Hunger May 24, 2017 | Posted by Rebekah Gienapp | Book Lists | As a young child, I remember being troubled by the thought that some people lived in poverty.
Home Fire, Kamila Shamsie in O, the Oprah Magazine September 2017 Reading Room.
The details of “American War,” Omar El Akkad’s dystopian novel about an ... Books of The Times. A Haunting Debut Looks Ahead to a Second American ...
“The Idiot,” a hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book . . . lopes along like a highbrow episode of “Louie,” a series of silly, surreal, confident riffs about humiliations, minor and major. It is a rejoinder to the pressure on literature to serve as self-help, to make us empathetic or better informed, to be useful.
These are TIME's top 10 non-fiction books, from Hillary Clinton's "What Happened" to Tina Brown's "The Vanity Fair Diaries."
The Rules Do Not Apply is an extension of an article Levy wrote in The New Yorker on a horrible miscarriage she suffered while reporting in Mongolia.
Eleanor Oliphant’s happy ending arrives eventually – as does the book’s wonderful, joyful message: it is never too late, for any of us. • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is published by HarperCollins.
37 books we’ve loved so far in 2017. By Book World Editors ... Review: ‘Borne’ is the latest dazzling novel from New Weird author Jeff VanderMeer
The National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35, 2017. Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose (Viking / Penguin Random House) ISBN: 9780735221710 Selected by Angela Flournoy, 2015 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction and ...
My Absolute Darling (Riverhead, 417 pp., ***½ out of four stars) is a powerful debut novel for Gabriel Tallent and a gripping introduction to a seriously brave little girl. Turtle Alveston is a 14-year-old middle-schooler in coastal Northern California who’s better at cleaning guns and shooting targets than taking vocabulary tests.
Difficult Women is a short story collection filled with women who defy stereotypes, challenge the status quo, love and lose and suffer and fail, and do the best they can with whatever it is they’re facing in life: poverty, racism, bad marriages, past crimes, violence, betrayal, the pitfalls of love, and so much more.
Turtles All the Way Down Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate.
'Her Body And Other Parties' Is An Abrupt, ... 2017 10:00 AM ET. ... The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books
About Conversations with Friends. Winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year One of Vogue’s 10 Best Books of 2017 ∙ Slate’s 10 Favorite Books of the Year ∙ Elle.com’s Best Books of the Year ∙ The Cut’s Best Books by Women
Following Coates's National Book Awardwinning epistolary tour de force, Between the World and Me, comes this essay collection that grapples with the specter of "Good Negro Government"upstanding, accomplished black leadershipand how such government plays out in a racist society.
Le Carre's 'A Legacy of Spies' smartly revives Cold War - and George Smiley. Spymaster John le Carre returns with 'A Legacy of Spies,' a sequel to 'The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.' A 3-star book review.
White Tears by Hari Kunzru is a captivating literary and psychological horror tale. It traces two young college-educated twenty-somethings’ obsession with sounds and music. After college, they move to New York and open a studio recording “authentic” music as opposed to commercial saccharin.
In You Don't Have to Say You Love Me award winning author Sherman Alexie attempts to come to terms with his relationship with an abusive and mentally ill mother. Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian (he calls his self an Indian so thats what imma call him) on a Spokane Indian Reservation in complete poverty.
Ruth, the rudderless 30-year-old of this food-obsessed diaristic novel, would make an excellent dinner companion. She'd choose perfect SoCal cheap eats, "put too much sake into [her] body," and give mordant voice to what ails her, from the stress of caring for her Alzheimer's-stricken father to the ...
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2017 Book Preview. 83 books — 169 voters ... just because there is a Marlena in the book and one, two, ...
As far as books by Indian writers/editors are concerned, 2017 was indeed a productive year. The following are my favourites: Songs for Siva: Vacanas of Akka Mahadevi, translated by Vinaya Chaitanya, New Delhi: Harper Perennial, 2017.
Salman Rushdie's The Golden House is a delightful hybrid of a Wes Anderson world and the closeknit community of the West Village in New York City – in
Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.
THE FUTURE IS HISTORY How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen 515 pp. Riverhead Books. $28.
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The author of three novels and three collections of short stories, he draws on our sympathies even while pricking our anxieties. Before beginning his exceptionally unnerving new book, go ahead and lock the door, but it won’t help. You’ll still be stuck inside yourself, which for Chaon is the most precarious place to be.
On 14 February 2017, Pullman announced that The Book of Dust would be a new trilogy, and announced the publication of the first novel, La Belle Sauvage, published on 19 October 2017. The books are jointly published by Random House Children’s and David Fickling Books in the United Kingdom, and by Random House Children's Books in the US.
They too are on the move, including the loyal Obelisks that follow them in the sky. Hoa, the stone boy, gets his own point of view chapters. Hoa, the stone boy, gets his own point of view chapters. The Stone Sky is not a high-octane story full of action.
In Norse Mythology, Gaiman fashions primeval stories into a novelistic arc that begins with the genesis of the legendary nine worlds; delves into the exploits of the deities, dwarves, and giants; and culminates in Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods and the rebirth of a new time and people.
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) ... 05/30/2017; I’m always amused whenever I peek at the inside flap of a new book by David Sedaris and the accompanying ...
Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing is Monsters is a beautiful, intricately designed graphic novel, and stands as one of the great works of the medium.'
‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men Image A police captain in Washington hangs a recruiting poster announcing police examinations to be given in predominantly black neighborhoods in 1968.
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Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
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Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh is a collection of stories unlike any you've ever read before – hilarious, imaginative, and utterly enjoyable, they all ultimately tell the tale of the human condition, for better or for worse.