The Shortlist: History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati
Four novels take readers back in time. Among these adventures: smuggling runaway slaves, charging San Juan Hill and performing Shakespeare in Dartmoor Prison.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: Mama Was a Numbers Runner
In “The World According to Fannie Davis,” Bridgett M. Davis tells the extraordinary story of her mother, a Detroit numbers runner.
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Children’s Books: Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy
A novel from Meg Wolitzer and Holly Goldberg Sloan, a revamp of the Baby-Sitters Club, and more in the latest funny books for middle-grade readers.
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Nonfiction: The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America
Eric Rutkow’s “The Longest Line on the Map” recounts the repeated efforts to build a Pan-American highway.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Fiction: Growing Up in New York, Just Like Holden and Francie. Only With Basketball.
The heroine of Dana Czapnick’s debut novel, “The Falconer,” feels most at home shooting hoops at her prep school gym.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors from The New York Times.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Nonfiction: A Memoir From the Young, Gay Mayor of South Bend Running for President
Pete Buttigieg’s “Shortest Way Home” tells the story of an accomplished and ambitious man who is the latest contender to enter the race for the presidency.
Source: NY Times Book Reviews
Profile: In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss
Benedict Wells’s fourth novel is his first to be translated into English after gaining much praise in Europe.
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'Horse Latitudes' Is A Gripping Mix Of Genres
Part thriller, part noir, and part tropical gothic, Morris Collins' debut novel follows a New York photographer on a dangerous and increasingly surreal journey through Central America.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
Learning What's Sacred In Screwball 'Holy Lands'
Very little actually is sacred — at least to begin with — in Amanda Sthers' lively new novel about a Jewish pig farmer in Israel, his fractious family, and their voluminous correspondence.
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Source: NPR Book Reviews
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