Here, the best fiction books of 2018. In Hilburn’s skillful hands, Simon emerges as a musician who is controlling in the studio yet generous toward and respectful of artists with whom he works. Sensitively conceived and exuberantly executed. Bestseller Forsyth retires on a high note with this enthralling thriller detailing the nuts and bolts of modern espionage. Originating in the author’s award-winning Wall Street Journal reportage, this corporate exposé describes how Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford dropout in her 20s, created a billion-dollar tech firm, Theranos, based on defective technology and empty promises.
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Readers will come to understand these formally varied pieces not necessarily as small stories—about belonging, displacement, wonder, and more—in themselves, but as questions about how we tell those kinds of stories. The Observer Best books of 2018 . Mrs. Badger climbs Sugarloaf Peak every Sunday, helping overturned turtles and speaking with acquaintances along the way.
Spreads as delicate as painted porcelain depict the lighthouse and its circular rooms, each moment like the hand on the face of a clock. Want even more recommendations?
The violent abuse Pearl faces at home and school juxtaposes with the devotion (and envy) of her friendships in a revealing look at the underbelly of adolescence. Explore the Barnes & Noble Top 100 Best Sellers list to discover all the top books from your favorite authors and genres.
Set in 1768, Edgar winner Pattison’s excellent fifth historical centers on the sabotage of a British ship in Boston Harbor and the related murder of a Native American Christian convert.
Over 16 essays, he reflects on varied experiences—working as a Tarot card reader, studying with Annie Dillard, meeting William F. Buckley at a catering job—that together illuminate the development of his craft. 2015 | Discover Amazon’s Top 100 best-selling products in 2012, 2011, 2010 and beyond.
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An author's note follows each dazzling tale, offering context on creative choices and changes. 2017 | Although the two groups in the Texas camp rarely mix, the young women, drawn realistically and sympathetically, find their friendship intensifying. As predictions of the outlook for climate change worsen, this look at how American shorelines have been affected by it only grows more urgent. The inclusive volume's vibrant collage–style spreads recount the stories of 55 notable women over time and across the globe (among them Empress Wu Zetian of China, Indian secret agent Noor Inayat Khan, and Mayan human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú) and emphasize change-makers' common bonds.
This lively debut offers a candid portrait of one Chinese-American immigrant’s experience through the eyes of a gutsy 10-year-old. Prior, English professor at Liberty University, mines the wisdom of Jane Austen, Shusaku Endo, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O’Connor, and others in this treatise on building character through reading great books. Ortberg brings all his insight as a humorist, advice columnist, and social commentator to this collection of deeply unnerving stories.
He fills his book with all the key players, such as Herschel Walker and Steve Young, and the businessmen (notably Donald Trump, owner of the New Jersey Generals) who tried to create a league that could compete with the NFL. Through his characters’ searches for meaning or their clawing just to hold onto life, Johnson is able to articulate what it means to be alive and to have hope. Serre’s enchanting, wistful ode to pleasure boldly follows its own strange, slippery logic. A jewel of a creation. Ondaatje is a preternaturally gifted storyteller, and this is a fine showcase of his abilities. It’s mid-December, and likely you are sick and tired of best-of lists.
Sisters Liba and Laya were raised Jewish, but their heritage is far stranger: Liba (who narrates in prose) can turn into a bear, and Laya (who thinks in poetry) into a swan. But she isn’t left without for long. With strong dark line work and seriocomic facial stylings, interspersed with quotes cited from Salinger to period tabloids, Kupperman’s moving family story bares the ramifications of America’s celebrity-obsessed culture. Novelist and English professor Laymon addresses this spellbinding, stylishly written memoir to his mother. Eleven-year-old Merci, a descendent of Cuban immigrants, doesn’t feel much pressure to be anyone but herself—but her self-assuredness makes her a bullying target at school, and her home life is stressful, with her beloved grandfather’s health failing.
By Katy Waldma n. December 4, 2018. Kyozo Hayami, of the Tokyo Metropolitan PD, has to figure out how a construction company executive was killed by a crossbow bolt in the unusual figure eight–shaped house that he shared with his parents and two siblings. The Ultimate Best Books of 2018 List AKA the Nerdiest Popularity Contest of All Time. To say the personal meets political here would be an understatement—Rivera strikes a blow “against the piercing tedium/ of colonization” in this pointed response to the systematic exploitation by state and capital of of Puerto Rico and its people. A tall brick wall runs along the gutter in this delightful story: “The wall protects this side of the book,” a knight explains, “from the other side of the book.” Agee makes clever use of the famous fourth wall as a literary device (and gives the book a new wall altogether) while reminding readers that preconceived notions, over a boundary or otherwise, are often distinctly wrong. Vásquez—author, narrator, and protagonist of this ingenious novel—is pulled into a web of potential conspiracy in Colombia by a radio host named Carballo, who claims to have proof of links between the assassinations of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1948) and General Rafael Uribe Uribe (1914). Apostol’s novel of staggering imagination deconstructs how humans tell stories and decide which versions of events are remembered, and it fearlessly probes the long shadow of forgotten American imperialism.
Summers alternates Sadie’s unflinching first-person narration from the road with compelling transcripts from a true crime podcast covering the story. This is a riveting, powerful reading experience. 2010 Fifteen Asian authors share short, genre-spanning retellings of myths and legends traditional to their own cultures in this outstanding anthology edited by Chapman and We Need Diverse Books president Oh. American fans of domestic suspense will want to see more from this talented author. Our most popular product of the year.
A police officer (who plays guitar) and a victim’s advocate (who loves to dance and sing) debate the best ways to help Chicago’s Puerto Rican community, and fall in love along the way.
Then Lulu the cat joins her, learns the route, and, when Mrs. Badger is too frail to make the trips, takes on her tradition of kindness.
The Overstory, Richard Powers. First-time author Khorram’s coming-of-age novel brings to life the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of a culture steeped in tradition. Ugrešić’s work is essential reading for writers and lovers of writing alike. Washes of orange, pink, and blue take readers from sunset to dawn and echo the story’s quiet mood of deep appreciation for simple joys. Carpenter skips the easy morality of guns, patriotic loyalty, and heroic action to slowly disclose the complexities of the secret world and how it relates to the human heart.
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