Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.
August 25:
Entertainment Weekly:
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
NPR:
NYT:
Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest by Ian Zack
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope by Jon Meacham
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar
People:
Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
USA Today:
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Washington Post:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Authors on Air:
NPR:
Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda by Jean Guerrero
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter
August 18:
NTY:
Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan Mikhail
People:
The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey
Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different by Lisa Selin
Time:
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
The Washington Post:
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson
AOC : The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edited by Lynda Lopez
Authors on Air:
NPR:
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
August 11:
The Atlantic:
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Entertainment Weekly:
The New American by Micheline Aharonian
Fox News:
Meghan and Harry: The Real Story by Lady Colin
NPR:
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
NYT:
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaght
Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood by Margot Mifflin
Kings County by David Goodwillie
The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey
People:
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White
Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life by Diane Cardwell
With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt
The Washington Post:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud
Authors on Air:
NPR:
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
August 4:
NPR:
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories by Laura van den Berg
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing by Grace Bonner
The NYT:
In the Valley: Stories and a Novella Based on Serena by Ron Rash
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It By Robert B. Reich
Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing by Grace Bonner
PBS NewsHour August Book Club title:
Beijing Payback by Daniel Nieh
People:
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle
Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering: Volume 2 by Joanna Gaines
USA Today:
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball
Authors on Air:
NPR’s Fresh Air:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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