Nonfiction. Nonfiction. Stories. The eminent environmentalist reconstructs decades’ worth of his observations of the natural world, from the Arctic to Australia. Show All … Nonfiction. In this novel set in the 18th-century England of the Peninsular War, a returning British officer tries to break free of his battlefield memories — turning a story that begins as a full-immersion historical novel into something closer to a psychological mystery. This lyrical, remarkable novel, set during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, somehow manages to solve the riddle of how to sing war now. Nonfiction. Akers’s lush, shimmering mystery is set in a Prohibition-era Manhattan that has been divided by a wall separating the affluent Eastside from the nightmarish Westside, which is teeming with jungle, rot and darkness. The 10 Best Books of 2019 The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
Fiction. As a foreign correspondent, Stack covered wars and reported from dozens of countries, but as a new parent she was overwhelmed. Correction: An earlier version of this article referred incompletely to the publisher of “She Was Like That.” It should have included Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In this deliciously acerbic and intelligent novel, two jurors meet at a murder trial, and, sequestered at an Econo Lodge, begin a passionate affair with unexpected reverberations on their lives and the legal proceedings. This novel, which explores notions of time travel, romance and mental stability, features a heroine who comes to believe she lives simultaneously in Elizabethan England and 21st-century New York, with events in one period affecting life in the other. Daum, a sharp critic and essayist, takes on the excesses and oversimplifications of contemporary feminism in a book she says she’s “never been more afraid of writing” or “more certain I had to.” This first volume in a planned trilogy offers a Tolstoyan perspective on the American Revolution, presenting a conflict that will be new to many readers, one that was ugly, savage and often barbaric. Fiction.
A wise and witty novel that follows the diverging lives and linguistic obsessions of identical twin sisters who struggle to figure out who they are on their own and in relation to each other. Nonfiction. Tremblay is one of our most masterly horror writers, and this collection of his short fiction does not disappoint — particularly the title story, a tale of nature gone berserk. Nonfiction. The former first lady spent much of the last decade in the public eye; her memoir shows us her life from the inside, recounting with grace, candor and wit her family’s journey from the Jim Crow South to Chicago and her own improbable rise to the White House. Nonfiction. Nonfiction. “Our hearing doesn’t weaken,” one poem declares, “but something silent in us strengthens.” A novel as consummately honed and enthralling as the very best of his work. Nonfiction. “I found it worked best to lie frequently.” For most of its 1,000 pages, Ellmann’s brilliantly ambitious seventh novel follows the unspooling consciousness of an Ohio housewife circa 2017, and does so almost entirely in one long, lyrical, constantly surprising sentence. Fiction. Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, “The Yellow House” is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map. Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, Broom’s extraordinary debut is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination and poor city planning that led her family’s New Orleans home to be wiped off the map. Replete with vivid detail and sharply etched personalities, this narrative of astounding incompetence moves from mistake to mistake, miscalculation to miscalculation, as it builds to the inevitable, history-changing disaster. Fiction. Beginning in 1764, some of Britain’s future leading lights (including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Edward Gibbon) met every Friday night to talk and drink. Fiction. Nonfiction. Fiction. Fiction. Illustration by Marie Assénat. Nonfiction. Memoir. Memoir. agent haunted by an old case — delivers plenty of action while addressing thought-provoking issues of identity, belonging and moral compromise. The “red mess” that Arnett’s narrator finds in the family’s taxidermy workshop early in this debut novel is not the inside of a deer — it’s her dad, who has committed suicide. Will, after a long career as a public intellectual, sums up his thinking about the meaning of conservatism in an argument that includes history, epistemology, culture, religion, politics and constitutionalism. Levy’s novel experiments with time travel, history and the endless complications of love as she unspools the story of a young historian of Eastern Europe, knocked for more than a loop while crossing London’s Abbey Road.
Snyder debunks pervasive myths (restraining orders are the answer, abusers never change) and writes movingly about the lives (and deaths) of people on both sides of the equation. Nonfiction. Nonfiction. Nonfiction. Fiction. The book balances grief with humor and lush, visceral details. In her bleak but very funny fifth collection, Shaughnessy turns largely to prose poems to envision a near-future ravaged by climate change. Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author) 4.54 avg rating — 532,136 ratings . Acutely sensitive to these misgivings, Luiselli has delivered a madly allusive, self-reflexive, experimental book, one that is as much about storytellers and storytelling as it is about lost children.A desolate ferry terminal on the Spanish coast isn’t a place where you’d expect to encounter sharp-edged lyricism or rueful philosophy, but thanks to the two Irish gangster antiheroes of Barry’s novel, there’s plenty of both on display, along with scabrously amusing tale-telling and much summoning of painful memories. She doesn’t give easy answers but presents a wealth of information that is its own form of hope.Higginbotham’s superb account of the April 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is one of those rare books about science and technology that read like a tension-filled thriller. Part history, part true crime, Keefe’s book uses the abduction and murder of a Belfast mother to illuminate the bitter conflict known as the Troubles. — via the tale of a billionaire whose mind survives in the digital world long after his physical death.
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