Sunday, December 30, 2018

Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, 2018, 2019

2019 Winner:
An American Marriage Tayari Jones

The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite
Milkman Anna Burns
Ordinary People Diana Evans
Circe Madeline Miller

Remembered by Yvonne Battle-Felton
The Pisces Melissa Broder
Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi
Swan Song Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Number One Chinese Restaurant Lillian Li
Bottled Goods Sophie van Llewyn
Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden
Ghost Wall Sarah Moss
Normal People by Sally Rooney



2018 Winner:
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 

The Idiot by Elif Batuman 
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass 
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

H(a)ppy by Nicola Barker
Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Elmet by Fiona Mozley
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
A Boy in Winter by Rachel Seiffert
The Trick to Time by Kit de Waal



2017 Winner: 
The Power, Naomi Alderman

Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo 
The Dark Circle, Linda Grant
The Sport of Kings, C.E. Morgan
First Love, Gwendoline Riley
Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien


Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
Little Deaths, Emma Flint
The Mare, Mary Gaitskill
The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride
Midwinter, Fiona Melrose
The Woman Next Door, Yewande Omotoso
The Lonely Hearts Hotel, Heather O’Neill
The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry
Barkskins, Annie Proulx
The Gustav Sonata, Rose Tremain

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

NYT Notable Books 2018

    Fiction & Poetry

*An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Brown by Kevin Young
Cherry by Nico Walker
Crudo by Olivia Laing
Early Work by Andrew Martin
Eternal Life by Dara Horn
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
*The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Immigrant, Montana by Amitava Kumar
Improvement by Joan Silber
In Every Moment We Still Are Alive by Tom Malmquist
The Kites by Romain Gary
Kudo by Rachel Cusk
Lake Success by Gary Shteyngart
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
Last Stories by William Trevor
Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
My Struggle: Book 6 by Karl Ove Knausgaard
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Lawrence Osborne
The Overstory by Richard Powers
*The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole
Property by Lionel Shriver
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
Severance by Ling Ma
Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau
The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst
*Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
A State of Freedom by Neel Mukherjee
*There There by Tommy Orange
A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith
*Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
*Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

*The Witch Elm by Tana French
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg


Nonfiction

Ali: A Life  by Jonathan Eig
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us by Joseph J. Ellis
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
Calypso by David Sedaris
Churchill: Walking With Destiny by Andrew Roberts
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America by Beth Macy
Educated by Tara Westover
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
Feel Free by Zadie Smith
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O’Brien
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
In Pieces by Sally Field
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell L. Moore
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid
Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown by Lauren Hilgers
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha
Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere by Hillary Chute
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas