The Best Books We Read This Week. Our editors and critics choose the most captivating, notable, brilliant, surprising, absorbing, weird, thought-provoking, and talked-about reads. Check back every ...
Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. Harper Lee, believed to be one of the most influential authors to have ever existed, famously published only a single novel (up until its controversial sequel was published in 2015 just before her death).Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and became an immediate classic of literature. The novel examines racism in the American South ...
Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is a powerful, heart-wrenching portrait of 1980s working-class Glasgow, seen through the eyes of young Shuggie, a boy growing up amidst poverty and addiction. At the heart of the novel is Shuggie’s relationship with his mother, Agnes, a proud but deeply troubled woman whose battle with alcoholism shapes the course of their lives.
In our survey about the best books since 1996, a number of authors split the vote — among their own titles. Here are 10 prolific pens that deserved an honorable mention.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950. It was the first published of seven novels in The Chronicles of Narnia and the best known; among all the author's books it is the most widely held in libraries.
Goodreads rating: 4.64 Genre: Middle grade fiction When Fighting Words was published in 2020, the aptly named novel, now a highest-rated book on Goodreads, was a force to be reckoned with. The ...
The Magazine: Kirkus Reviews Featuring 295 industry-first reviews of fiction, nonfiction, children’s, and YA books; also in this issue: interviews with Aaron John Curtis, Bonnie Tsui, Rebecca Stead, and Candice Fleming; and more
Best Books (Fiction, Prose) : Experts Choose Their Favourites The Book "Best Books", 197 Books This list of books is from the book titled "Best Books: Experts Choose Their Favourites". This is a very small set of the books that are listed in the book. This is only the Fiction, non-fiction prose, drama, and genre fiction.
The Top 10 (Book), 103 Books The Top 10 book chosen by 125 top writers from the book "The Top 10" edited by J. Peder Zane. This list was originally published in 2007 and was added to this site about 11 years ago.
Ben wrote: "I had originally added it to the list but at some point, it was auto-changed to Swann's Way." I can't be certain, but I'd guess that the auto-change occurred as a multi-step process: 1) a voter added Swann's Way to the list; 2) a librarian did an automated search for duplicate volumes on the list to clean it up; 3) the Goodreads database happened to interpret In Search of Lost Time ...
Now a major Disney+ original TV series, Dissolution is the first novel in the unforgettable Shardlake series from C. J. Sansom. Set against the violent upheaval of Henry VIII’s England, this intelligent historical mystery follows lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake as he investigates a brutal murder within a monastery – only to find corruption, heresy, and danger lurking in every shadow.
In life, there are things you could do, things you should do, and things you must do. These same categories apply to the choice of book you read next. You could read any number of books, for reasons ranging from guilty pleasure to the fact that your book club meets in two days. You should probably read any number of classic novels that will expand your literary palate or teach you a thing or two.
Some of the best-known authors of classic literature wrote more than a century ago, including Mary Shelley, Daniel Defoe and Miguel de Cervantes, who penned the oldest book on the list. More ...
The Best Books of April. Best in Children’s Books. The 10 Best Books of 2024. This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our ...
What made the book so controversial was its featuring of sexuality, which, along with descriptions of the desperation, the poverty, and the grief present in the lives of those without a clear sense of direction, is part of Miller’s candor. If a book can hold the soul of a writer, perhaps none is as potent as Tropic of Cancer. 66.
222 Best Books of All Time That Deserve a Spot on Your Bookshelf, With Picks from Bestselling Authors and Indie Booksellers. George R.R. Martin and Anne Tyler are just two of the acclaimed authors ...
The Best Books for Parents of Autistic Children. Syreeta Brown, Memoirist “The main character is a young boy who is completely confused by the social interactions of people in his community and in his family, but he’s also very precocious in mathematics. The book describes, albeit fictionally, the disconnect between his understanding of ...