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Dec 29, 2020 · War Books: Major General Mick Ryan's 2021 Reading List - Modern War Institute. Editor’s note: For the fourth year in a row, Maj. Gen. Mick Ryan has compiled a reading list for professional development that the Modern War Institute is pleased to publish.
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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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- All Quiet On The Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque. Buy the book now from Amazon. The definitive anti-war book. Written by a veteran of the First World War, it recounts in horrific and spellbinding detail the real life experience of war.
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller. Buy the book now from Amazon. Such was the potency of Joseph Heller’s sparkling satirical novel about the 256th squadron in World War II that its title has passed over into common usage for a no-win situation.
- War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy. Buy the book now from Amazon. War and Peace is inarguably one of the greatest books of all time – it also happens to be about war, conflict and its impact upon all involved.
- For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway. Buy the book now from Amazon. The Spanish Civil War entranced a generation of artists, writers and activists, all of whom recognised that what was being played out in the plains of Andalucía and the streets of Barcelona, was a portent for what was coming globally.
- 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.
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s jagged ode to the 1980s explores the combustible nature of family secrets, severe heartbreak, and Too Much Alcohol. Reid has a way with recent history. She won the Historical Fiction category in 2019 for her 1970s pop parable, Daisy Jones & the Six. All Nominees •.
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Dec 15, 2021 · Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we’ll be revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2021, in the categories of (deep breath): Memoir and Biography; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Poetry; Mystery and Crime; Graphic Literature; Literature in ...
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