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If You Name Your Book ‘Not a Happy Family,’ People Will Buy It

Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 5:00am

By Elisabeth Egan

Shari Lapena’s latest thriller is on the hardcover fiction list, kids are in Halloween mode and other news from the world of best-sellerdom.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Oprah Picked It, So Did Obama — Why This Novel Is THE Summer Book

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 5:00am

By Carole V. Bell

Nathan Harris's debut, set in a small Southern town just after Appomattox, has captured American readersthis summer by asking a question we haven't yet answered: How do you make peace after civil war?

(Image credit: Little, Brown and Company)

Source: NPR Book Reviews

Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding

Wednesday, August 4, 2021 - 5:00am

A selection of recently published books.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

The Two Economists Who Fought Over How Free the Free Market Should Be

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 2:04pm

By Paul Krugman

Nicholas Wapshott’s “Samuelson Friedman” looks at a feud that continues to define the economic direction of the United States.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Philosophical, Queer, Angry, Romantic, Defiant: 'Afterparties' Contains Multitudes

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 - 7:00am

By Thúy Đinh

Anthony Veasna So died in December, but he lives on in the pages of this debut story collection — a vibrant, funny and unsparing look at the lives of Cambodian Americans in his California hometown.

(Image credit: Ecco)

Source: NPR Book Reviews