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- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. (FSG) 27 Rave • 26 Positive • 25 Mixed • 2 Pan. Listen to an excerpt from Beautiful World, Where Are You here.
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 24 Positive • 6 Mixed. “Klara and the Sun confirms one’s suspicion that the contemporary novel’s truest inheritor of Nabokovian estrangement—not to mention its best and deepest Martian—is Ishiguro … Never Let Me Go wrung a profound parable out of such questions: the embodied suggestion of that novel is that a free, long, human life is, in the end, just an unfree, short, cloned life.
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead) 31 Rave • 13 Positive • 7 Mixed. Read an interview with Patricia Lockwood here. “Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously.
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. (FSG) 32 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “… a novel that takes the religious beliefs of its characters seriously, without ever forgetting how easily faith can twist itself into absurdity … is light on curmudgeonly social commentary.
Dec 9, 2021 · A young lawyer in present-day Toronto grapples with the moral reckoning of war crimes as she probes a mass murder committed by Stalin’s security police in 1930s Belarus. TENDERNESS, by Alison ...
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- The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien | 5.00. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print.
- All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr | 4.82. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
- The Book Thief. Markus Zusak | 4.73. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow.
- Catch-22. Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley | 4.72. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.
Sep 25, 2024 · The best fiction of 2021, novels that have beaten out the competition to make the shortlist of prestigious prizes or handpicked books by our expert editors.
- The Art of War. Sun Tzu | 5.00. For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has stood as a cornerstone of Chinese culture-a lucid epigrammatic text that reveals as much about human psychology, politics, and economics as it does about battlefield strategy.
- The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien | 4.91. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print.
- The Book Thief. Markus Zusak | 4.80. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow.
- Unbroken. A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption. Laura Hillenbrand | 4.80. In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit.
Nov 18, 2021 · Best books of 2021: Fiction. Laura Battle selects her must-read titles. © Cat O’Neil. Laura Battle. November 17 2021. Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT,...
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