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37 books we’ve loved
so far in 2016
June 9, 2016
As summer approaches, here are some of our favorite reads – from thrillers to literary fiction, memoir, science and politics. And 10 novels we’re looking forward to.
All the Books and information listed in this blog post are from The Washington Post
History, Current Event & Pop Culture
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu,
By Joshua Hammer
Part travelogue, part intellectual history, part geopolitical tract and part thriller, Hammer tells the remarkable story of the librarian who oversaw a plot to smuggle ancient manuscripts out of Timbuktu, Mali, in an effort to save them from war.
Simon & Schuster
Fiction
Barkskins
By Annie Proulx
By drilling deep into the forests that enabled this country to conquer the world, Proulx has laid out the whole history of American capitalism and its rapacious destruction of the land.
Scribner
Fiction
The Book of Harlan
By Bernice L. McFadden
A miraculous story about a pair of jazz musicians who travel from Harlem to Paris just before the Nazi occupation.
Akashic
Fiction
Bucky F*&ing Dent
By David Duchovny
Set in 1970s New York amid one of baseball’s most famous pennant races, the “X-Files” star’s second novel traces a rite of passage: a son coming to grips with a distant father who has only a few months to live.
Farrar Straus Giroux
The Caped Crusade
By Glen Weldon
How does one comic-book character remain so consistently intriguing to so many people over eight decades? A look at the history of Batman.
Simon & Schuster
Mysteries & Thrillers
End of Watch
By Stephen King
The finale to the trilogy that began with “Mr. Mercedes,” this grimly entertaining tale follows the diabolical machinations of a villain thought to be in a vegetative state but who is in fact masterminding a fiendish plan to fool people into killing themselves. Can he be stopped?
Scribner
Politics
Engines of Liberty
By David Cole
When courts fail to protect our rights, citizen advocacy groups step in, as this book shows, and produce sometimes stunning constitutional changes.
Basic
Fiction
Everybody’s Fool
By Richard Russo
This big-hearted, often hilarious sequel to “Nobody’s Fool” finds police chief Douglas Raymer trying to track down his late wife’s lover.
Knopf
History, Current Event & Pop Culture
Evicted
By Matthew Desmond
An extraordinary feat of reporting and ethnography, Desmond has made it impossible to again consider poverty in America without tackling the central role of housing — and the demise of opportunity and of hope that occurs when people are forced to leave their homes.
Crown
Politics
Exit Right
By Daniel Oppenheimer
What causes a liberal to swing to the right? Here are the stories of six 20th-century intellectuals, politicians and journalists who underwent jarring transformations.
Simon & Schuster
History, Current Event & Pop Culture
The Firebrand and the First Lady
By Patricia Bell-Scott
A fascinating portrait of the unusual friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and a young black activist named Pauli Murray, who went on to become an influential lawyer, Episcopal minister, writer and co-founder of the National Organization for Women.
Knopf
Mysteries & Thrillers
Fixers
By Michael M. Thomas
Thomas, a former partner at Lehman Brothers, spins an audacious financial thriller based on real-life events — the 2008 financial crisis — that features cameos by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The novel juxtaposes the ideals of loyalty, service, patriotism and noblesse oblige against the venality of contemporary Wall Street.
Melville
History, Current Event & Pop Culture
The Gene: An Intimate History
By Siddhartha Mukherjee
A thorough and thought-provoking biography of the gene: its science, the scientists who study it and the controversies that have spun from our understanding of it.
Simon & Schuster
Fiction
The Girls
By Emma Cline
A woman looks back on her involvement with a Charles Manson-like cult.
Random House
History, Current Event & Pop Culture
The Gunning of America
By Pamela Haag
A fascinating exploration of the major businesses and families that have manufactured firearms — and manufactured the seductiveness of firearms — in this country over the past 150 years.
Basic
Fiction
Heat & Light
By Jennifer Haigh
A Pennsylvania town is torn apart by the dirty business of fracking.
Ecco
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