1. Cheever: A Life
Written by Blake Bailey, who was given access to the journals Cheever kept throughout his life, gives a new meaning to Cheever’s literary work, enabling readers to re-admire his great work.
2. Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon was among the finalists for the National Book Award for Among the Missing. In this book, he has kept up the good work depicting the deceitful nature of identity in today’s wired world and the limits of family. It is impossible to put down the novel once you start reading.
3. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
Reported and narrated in a splendid way, Sheehan credits Air Force Gen. Bernard Schriever for his shrewdness to triumph over powerful Pentagon opponents and develop the crucial and terrifying weapon.
4. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Daniyal Mueenuddin , who was also an NBA finalist, shows Pakistan through the stories of its people: yearning, struggling, plotting, in a heartbreaking story collection that is specific and universal all at the same time.
5. Big Machine
LaValle’s brilliant second novel is extremely unique and gripping. The story revolves around Ricky Rice, an ex-junkie African-American bus station porter, who gets sucked into the bizarre machinations of a rural Vermont cult dedicated to studying “The Voice.”
6. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes illustrates through a thrilling narrative of scientific discovery how the great scientists of Britain’s romantic era gripped the imaginations of their contemporaries and forever changed our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
7. Stitches
Time to go back to comics, David Small’s account of his terrifying childhood is amazing. You will love the drawings of his parents and the small suffering boy who doesn’t quite understand until much later, will surely tear your heart out.
8. Shop Class as Soulcraft
Philosopher and motorcycle mechanic Matthew B. Crawford has used his brilliant way of writing to express the intellectual satisfactions of working with one’s hands and why white-collar work is the assembly line of the new millennium.
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Cool list – thanks for sharing. I’m going to look into #2 and #6!
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