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"Ex Libris: 100 Books To Read and Reread"
[2020] by Michiko Kakutani
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the books |  |
retired New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays
on books that help illuminate the world that we live in today
Michiko Kakutani entry at Wikipedia
browse books at Michiko Kakutani Store at Amazon
The Book
"Ex-Libris: 100 Books To Read and Reread" [2020]
by Michiko Kakutani, Illustrations by Dana Tanamachi
http://www.amazon.com/Ex-Libris-Books-Read-Reread-ebook/dp/B08478YC6V/
http://www.amazon.com/Ex-Libris-Books-Read-Reread/dp/0525574972/ 10/2020
http://www.amazon.com/Ex-Libris/dp/0008421951/
published in the United States by Clarkson Potter/Random House clarksonpotter.com
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/574590/ex-libris-by-michiko-kakutani/
The Listed Books
The books & essays chosen are listed in the Table of Contents generally in alphabetical order by author or subject;
other options were considered here, but MK's choice still makes the most sense.
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"Americanah" [2013] by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Nigeria
"The Light of The World" memoir [2015] by poet Elizabeth Alexander
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"The Greatest: My Own Story" [1975] by Muhammad Ali {born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.} [1942-2016]
"The Muhammad Ali Reader" [1998] Edited by Gerald Early
"King of The World: Muhammad Ali and The Rise of An American Hero" [1998] by David Remnick
"The Tribute: Muhammad Ali, 1942–2016" [2016] from Sports Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/SPORTS-ILLUSTRATED-Muhammad-Ali-1942-2016/dp/1683305825/
http://www.amazon.com/SPORTS-ILLUSTRATED-Muhammad-Ali-1942-2016/dp/B01K16Q0SI/
http://www.amazon.com/Sports-Illustrated-Muhammad-Ali-Tribute/dp/1933821043/
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"Experience: A Memoir" [2000] by Martin Amis
http://www.amazon.com/Experience-Memoir-Martin-Amis/dp/0676973132/
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"Winesburg, Ohio" [1919] by Sherwood Anderson [1876-1941]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winesburg,_Ohio
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"Sick In The Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy" [2015] by Judd Apatow
http://www.amazon.com/Sick-Head-Conversations-About-Comedy-ebook/dp/B00R04MDTA/
http://www.amazon.com/Sick-Head-Conversations-About-Comedy/dp/0812987284/
http://www.amazon.com/Sick-Head-Conversations-About-Comedy/dp/0812997573/
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Hannah Arendt [1906-75]
entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Origins of Totalitarianism" [1951, rev 1973] by Hannah Arendt [1906-75] "This book lays bare for the first time the roots of Twentieth Century man's political and human tragedy: totalitarianism" • The book has three sections: Anti-semitism, Imperialism, and Racism/Totalitarianism book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [1973 edition] for $9.99 Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich 8x5¼ pb [3/73] for $14.55 Schocken 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2004] for $35.85 Harcourt, Brace & World 9x6½ hardcover [1966] out of print/used |
"The Handmaid’s Tale" [1985] by Canadian author Margaret Atwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood
"Collected Poems" [1976] by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden [1907-73]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Modern-Library-Auden/dp/0679643508/
"Continental Drift: A Novel" [1985] by Russell Banks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Banks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Drift_(novel)
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Saul Bellow [1915-2005]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bellow
http://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/652
"The Adventures of Augie March" [1953 novel] by Saul Bellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Augie_March
"Herzog" [1964 novel] by Saul Bellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_(novel)
"The Actual: A Novella" [1997] by Saul Bellow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Actual_(novel)
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"The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America" [1962] by Daniel J. Boorstin [1914-2004]
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"Ficciones" [Spanish 1956, English 1962] by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges [1899-1986]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges
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"The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing The Unknown" [Book 1 = 2017]
Edited by Catherine Burns, Foreword by Neil Gaiman
"The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying The Impossible" [Book 2 = 2019]
Edited by Catherine Burns, Foreword by Meg Wolitzer
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Albert Camus [1913-60]
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 •
entry at Wikipedia
 | "The Plague" novel [June 1947] by Albert Camus, Translated by Stuart Gilbert Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [8/2012] for $9.99 Vintage mass pb [5/91] for $7.22 Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $9.36 French-language original "La Peste" Gallimard mass pb [2/72] for $17.34 French & European Publns mass pb [1947] for $31.30 NTC/Contemporary mass pb [6/47] out of print/used |
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"The Passage of Power: Book 4 of 4 The Years of Lyndon Johnson" [5/2012] by Robert A. Caro
http://www.amazon.com/Passage-Power-Years-Lyndon-Johnson/dp/0679405070/
"Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage" [11/1981] by Stanley Cavell
http://www.amazon.com/Pursuits-Happiness-Hollywood-Remarriage-Harvard/dp/067473906X/
http://www.amazon.com/Pursuits-Happiness-Hollywood-Remarriage-Harvard/dp/0674739051/
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, and compares what each film expresses
about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles
"Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir" [5/2014]
by New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Roz Chast
http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Talk-about-Something-Pleasant/dp/1608198065/
Bruce Chatwin FRSL [1940-89]
"In Patagonia" [1977] by Bruce Chatwin
http://www.amazon.com/Patagonia-Bruce-Chatwin/dp/0671400452/
"What Am I Doing Here" [1989] by Bruce Chatwin - a collection of his journalism
"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914" [3/2013]
by Australian historian Sir Christopher Munro Clark, FBA
"Brother, I’m Dying" [2007 family memoir] by Edwidge Danticat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother,_I%27m_Dying
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwidge_Danticat
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Im-Dying-Vintage-Contemporaries-ebook/dp/B000VMBX7G/
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Im-Dying-Vintage-Contemporaries/dp/1400034302/
"Underworld: A Novel" [1997] by Don DeLillo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(DeLillo_novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo
http://www.amazon.com/Underworld-Novel-Don-DeLillo-ebook/dp/B0016P7SHG/
http://www.amazon.com/Underworld-Don-DeLillo/dp/1416548645/
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" [9/2007] by Junot Díaz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junot_D%C3%ADaz
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writer Joan Didion [b. 1934]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" [1968] by Joan Didion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem
"The White Album" [1979] by Joan Didion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Album_(book)
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"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" [2000] by Dave Eggers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Heartbreaking_Work_of_Staggering_Genius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Eggers
"The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg" [2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Eisenberg
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Deborah-Eisenberg-ebook/dp/B004GKMMPG/
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Deborah-Eisenberg/dp/0312429894/
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"The Waste Land" [1922] by T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot [1888-1965]
The 434-line poem is divided into five sections: "The Burial of The Dead", "A Game of Chess", "The Fire Sermon",
"Death by Water", and "What the Thunder Said".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._S._Eliot
http://www.amazon.com/Waste-Land-Other-Poems-ebook/dp/B01LXVJ2W0/
http://www.amazon.com/Waste-Land-Other-Poems/dp/B0011T0IV0/ 1943 hc
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American historian Joseph J. Ellis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ellis
 | "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" [2000] by Joseph J. Ellis book won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History • book entry at Wikipedai Vintage 8x5¼ pb [2/2002] for $10.17 Knopf 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2000] for $18.15 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Founding Fathers Page |
"American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic" [2007] by Joseph J. Ellis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Creation:_Triumphs_and_Tragedies_at_the_Founding_of_the_Republic
"Revolutionary Summer" [2013] by Joseph J. Ellis
"The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789" [2015] by Joseph J. Ellis
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"Invisible Man: A Novel" [Random House 1952] by Ralph Ellison [1913-94]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ellison
"As I Lay Dying" [1930 novel] by William Faulkner [1897-1962]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_Lay_Dying
"The Neapolitan Quartet" [2012-2015] by Elena Ferrante
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_Novels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Ferrante + www.elenaferrante.com
"The Forever War" [9/2008] by American journalist Dexter Filkins - about 9/11 and the nature of war
http://www.amazon.com/Dexter-Filkins/e/B001JRUZA8/
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American journalist David Finkel
won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 as a staff writer at The Washington Post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Finkel
"The Good Soldiers" [2009] by David Finkel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldiers
sequel book "Thank You For Your Service" [2013] by David Finkel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Your_Service
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"The Great Gatsby" [1925 novel] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]
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"Gould’s Book of Fish" [2001] by Australian writer Richard_Flanagan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gould%27s_Book_of_Fish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Flanagan
"The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857" [1980]
Edited & Translated by Francis Steegmuller [1906-94]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert [1821-80]
http://www.amazon.com/Francis-Steegmuller/e/B001IU2O6Y
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Gustave-Flaubert-1830-1857/dp/0674526376/
"Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer's Art" [1995] by music critic Will Friedwald
book won the 1996 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Friedwald
http://www.amazon.com/Sinatra-Song-You-Singers-Art-ebook/dp/B075TGCCBN/
http://www.amazon.com/Sinatra-Song-You-Singers-Art/dp/161373770X/
http://www.amazon.com/Sinatra-Song-You-Singer%C2%92s-Art/dp/068419368X/
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" [Spanish 1967, English 1970] by Gabriel García Márquez [1927-2014]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez
García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982
http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Solitude-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/006112009X/ 2006
http://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Solitude-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/0060531045/ 2017
http://www.amazon.com/soledad-Spanish-Gabriel-Garc%C3%ADa-M%C3%A1rquez/dp/0307474720/
"100 Years of Solitude" video [1981] /tt2168014/ based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez
"Farewell To The Ark" [1984] /tt0088041/ based on the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
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"The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" [1994] by Jon Gertner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory
http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797/
http://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-American-Innovation-Hardcover/dp/B00BQ1Q5GU/
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"The Peripheral (The Jackpot Trilogy Book 1)" [Oct 2014] by William Gibson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson
http://www.amazon.com/Peripheral-William-Gibson-ebook/dp/B00INIXKV2/
http://www.amazon.com/Peripheral-William-Gibson/dp/0425276236/
http://www.amazon.com/Peripheral-William-Gibson/dp/0399158448/
the second book of the trilogy is "Agency" [2020] and the third book will be "Jackpot" [date unknown]
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"The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves" [2013] by Stephen Grosz
http://www.amazon.com/Examined-Life-Lose-Find-Ourselves/dp/0393079546/
"A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order" [2017] by RICHARD HAASS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_N._Haass
http://www.amazon.com/World-Disarray-American-Foreign-Policy/dp/0399562362/
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"The Federalist Papers" [1787-88]
a series of 85 articles & essays written by Alexander Hamilton (51), John Jay & James Madison
'The Federalist' Papers entry at Wikipedia
"It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question,
whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend,
for their political constitutions, on accident and force." — Federalist Paper #1
 | "The Federalist Papers" [1787-88]
Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} Kindle Edition from Northpointe Classics [1/2013] for $1.99 {sic} Kindle Edition from Prabhat Prakashan [2/2017] for $3.04 Tribeca Books 9¾x8 pb [2/2011] for $9.19 CreateSpace 10x7 pb [10/2008] for $7.51 Buccaneer Books 5¾x8¾ hardcover [1990] for $15.67 |
 | "The Federalist Papers: Hamilton • Madison • Jay" [1961] based on the original McLean edition of 1788 Edited by historian Clinton Rossiter, Notes & Introduction by Charles R. Kessler Signet Classics mass pb [4/2003] for $7.27 Signet Classics mass pb [4/2003] out of print/40+ used |
"Seabiscuit: An American Legend" [2001] by Laura Hillenbrand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabiscuit:_An_American_Legend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Hillenbrand
http://www.amazon.com/Seabiscuit-American-Legend-Laura-Hillenbrand/dp/0449005615/
"Seabiscuit" [2003] /tt0329575/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabiscuit_(film)
http://www.amazon.com/Seabiscuit-Widescreen-Tobey-Maguire/dp/B00005JMCN/
"The Making of Seabiscuit" video [2003]
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"The Paranoid Style In American Politics" [1964] by
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Hofstadter [1916-70]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paranoid_Style_in_American_Politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter
http://www.amazon.com/Paranoid-Style-American-Politics/dp/0224611151/
"The Odyssey" epic poem [VIIIth Century B.C.E.] by Homer [VIIIth Century B.C.E.]
poem entry at Wikipedia •
author entry at Wikipedia •
"Lab Girl" [2016] by Hope Jahren
http://www.jahrenlab.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Lab-Girl-Hope-Jahren/dp/1101874937/
"Lincoln: The Biography of A Writer" [10/2008] by Fred Kaplan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Kaplan_(biographer)
http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Biography-Writer-Fred-Kaplan-ebook/dp/B001IG9D58/
http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Biography-Writer-Fred-Kaplan/dp/0060773367/
http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Biography-Writer-Fred-Kaplan/dp/0060773340/
"The Liars' Club: A Memoir" [1995 bestseller] by Mary Karr
sequel "Cherry" was published in 2001; "Lit" was published in 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liars%27_Club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr + http://www.marykarr.com/
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"A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches" [1986]
by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]
Edited by James M. Washington
http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Hope-Essential-Writings-Speeches/dp/0060646918/
http://www.amazon.com/Testament-Hope-Essential-Writings-Martin/dp/0062509314/
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"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" [2000] by Stephen King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Writing:_A_Memoir_of_the_Craft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King + http://www.stephenking.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Memoir-Craft-Stephen-King-ebook/dp/B000FC0SIM/
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Memoir-Craft-Stephen-King/dp/1982159375/
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Memoir-Craft-Stephen-King/dp/1439193630/
"The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts" [1976] by Maxine Hong Kingston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston
http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Warrior-Picador-Classic-ebook/dp/B00M440942/
http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Warrior-Memoirs-Girlhood-Ghosts/dp/0780736842/ 4/1989 hc
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"The Language of The Third Reich" [Germany 1947, English 1957] by Victor Klemperer [1881-1960]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Imperii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Klemperer
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Third-Reich-Lingua-Imperii/dp/0826491308/
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Third-Reich-Philologists-Notebook/dp/0826457770/
http://www.amazon.com/Language-Third-Reich-Philologists-Notebook/dp/0485115263/
"Language Does Not Lie (La Langue Ne Ment Pas)" documentary film [France TV 2004] /tt0897265/
79-minute color film produced & directed by Stan Neumann; adapted from Klemperer's diary; narrated by Denis Lavant
watch full movie - English intertitles & narration [1:42:34] online at YouTube {ends 1:19:05 & continues with Sundance Channel ads}
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"The Sixth Extinction" [] by ELIZABETH KOLBERT
"A Wrinkle In Time" [1962 novel] by Madeleine L'Engle [1918-2007]
"The Namesake" [] by JHUMPA LAHIRI
"You Are Not A Gadget" [] by Jaron Lanier
"Dawn of The New Everything" [] by Jaron Lanier
"The Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln [1809-65]" [] edited by DON E. FEHRENBACHER
"How Democracies Die" [] by STEVEN LEVITSKY and DANIEL ZIBLATT
"Arctic Dreams" [] by BARRY LOPEZ
"The Retreat of Western Liberalism" [] foreign policy book by EDWARD LUCE
"Do No Harm" [] by HENRY MARSH
"Blood Meridian: or, The Evening Redness In The West" [] by CORMAC MCCARTHY
"Atonement" [] by IAN MCEWAN
"Moby-Dick" [1851] by Herman Melville [1819-91]
"A Gate At The Stairs" [] by LORRIE MOORE
"Song of Solomon" [] by TONI MORRISON
"Beloved" [] by TONI MORRISON
"The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov" [] edited by DMITRI NABOKOV
"Speak, Memory" [] by VLADIMIR NABOKOV
"Reading Lolita In Tehran" [] by AZAR NAFISI
"A House For Mr. Biswas" [] by V.S. NAIPAUL
"Born A Crime" [] by TREVOR NOAH
"Dreams From My Father" [] by Barack Obama
"We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama" []
edited by E. J. DIONNE, JR. and JOY-ANN REID
 | "There There: A Novel" [2018] by Tommy Orange TO's first novel, praised by Sherman Alexie Kindle Edition from Knopf/Random House [6/2018] for $13.99 Harvill Secker U.K. 9¼x6 pb [7/2018] for $11.93 Harvill Secker U.K. 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2018] for $13.81 Knopf 8¾x6 hardcover [6/2018] for $23.36 |
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"Nineteen Eighty-Four" [1949 novel] by George Orwell [1903-50]
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"The Moviegoer" [] by WALKER PERCY
"Mason & Dixon" [] by Thomas PYNCHON
"The Shepherd’s Life" [] by JAMES REBANKS
"Life" [] by KEITH RICHARDS WITH JAMES FOX
"A Life of Picasso" [] by JOHN RICHARDSON
"Housekeeping" [] by MARILYNNE ROBINSON
"American Pastoral" [1997] by Philip Roth [1933-2018]
author entry at Wikipedia •
novel entry at Wikipedia
book received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1998
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The 'Harry Potter' Novels [1997-2007] by J.K. Rowling
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Salman Rushdie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
"Midnight's Children" [1981] by Salman Rushdie - won the Booker Prize in 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%27s_Children
"The Moor’s Last Sigh" [1995] by Salman Rushdie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moor%27s_Last_Sigh
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neurologist & author Dr. Oliver Sacks [1933-2015]
browse books •
official website •
Wikipedia
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, and Other Clinical Tales" [1985] by Oliver Sacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat
"An Anthropologist On Mars" [1995] by Oliver Sacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Anthropologist_on_Mars
Oliver Sacks Foundation [est. ]
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"Where the Wild Things Are" children's book [1963] by Maurice Sendak [1928-2012] - won the 1964 Caldecott Medal
book entry at Wikipedia •
author entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060254920/
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Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91}
"Horton Hears A Who!" [1954] by Dr. Seuss
"The Cat In The Hat" [1957] by Dr. Seuss
"How The Grinch Stole Christmas!" [1957] by Dr. Seuss
"Green Eggs and Ham" [1960] by Dr. Seuss
"The Lorax" [1971] by Dr. Seuss
"Oh, The Places You’ll Go!" [1990] by Dr. Seuss
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"The Plays of Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]"
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"Frankenstein" [] by Mary Shelley [1797-1851]
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"Little Failure" [] by GARY SHTEYNGART
"White Teeth" [] by ZADIE SMITH
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Timothy David Snyder [b. 1969] is an American author & historian
http://history.yale.edu/people/timothy-snyder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_D._Snyder
 | "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century" [2017] #1 New York Times bestseller by Timothy Snyder Kindle Edition from Tim Duggan Books [2/2017] for $3.99 Tim Duggan Books mass pb [2/2017] for $6.39 |
 | "The Road To Unfreedom: Russia · Europe · America" national bestseller [2018] by Timothy Snyder Kindle Edition from Tim Duggan Books/Random House [4/2018] for $13.99 The Bodley Head, Ltd. 9¼x6 pb [4/2018] for $20.57 Tim Duggan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2018] for $18.36 |
"My Beloved World" [] by SONIA SOTOMAYOR
"Anatomy of Terror" [] book about 9/11 by ALI SOUFAN
"The Right Kind of Crazy" [] by ADAM STELTZNER with WILLIAM PATRICK
"The Palm At The End of The Mind" [] by WALLACE STEVENS
"The Goldfinch" [] by DONNA TARTT
"Democracy In America" [] by ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
"The Lord of The Rings" [] by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
"The Letters of Vincent van Gogh" [] by VINCENT VAN GOGH
"On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" [] by OCEAN VUONG
"The Poetry of Derek Walcott, 1948–2013" []
"Infinite Jest" [] by DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
"All The King’s Men" [] by ROBERT PENN WARREN
"George Washington’s Farewell Address" []
"Educated" [] by TARA WESTOVER
"The Underground Railroad" [] by COLSON WHITEHEAD
"Lincoln At Gettysburg" [] by GARRY WILLS
"Lincoln’s Sword" [] by DOUGLAS L. WILSON
"The Looming Tower" [] book about 9/11 by LAWRENCE WRIGHT
"The World of Yesterday" [] by STEFAN ZWEIG
The Author
Michiko Kakutani [b. 1955]
American literary critic and former chief book critic for The New York Times; her awards include a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1998.
Michiko Kakutani entry at Wikipedia
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"The Poet at the Piano" [3/1989] by Michiko Kakutani
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872262103/
"The Death of Truth: Notes On Falsehood In The Age of Trump" [2018] ISBN 978-0525574828
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/408773496X/ japanese edition
http://www.amazon.com/Morte-Verdade-Mentira-Portugues-Brasil/dp/855100364X/ portuguese edition
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