Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.
November 24:
Best of 2020 Lists:
BBC:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Book Page:
Best Fiction:
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Best Non-Fiction:
Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
Best YA:
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
Lit Hub- Best of History and Politics:
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh
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NYT:
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
Wired- Best Cookbooks:
Chaat: Recipes From the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India by Maneet Chauhan
November 17:
BuzzFeed:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Entertainment Weekly:
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
NYT:
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War by Alice L Baumgartner
Black Women, Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage by Dianne M Stewart
USA Today
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
The Washington Post:
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett and read by John Lee
November 10:
The Atlantic:
NPR:
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
NYT:
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
Cobble Hill by Cecily von Ziegesar
Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last by Wright Thompson
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World by Virginia Postrel
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
The Washington Post:
Authors on Air:
Fresh Air:
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
November 3:
Entertainment Weekly:
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age by John Lithgow
Kirkus:
Pappyland: A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last by Wright Thompson
Lit Hub:
NPR:
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam
NYT:
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
The Washington Post:
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
Authors on Air:
NPR:
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
Reading Women:
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