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| | | November 27, 2017 | Best Poetry & Literature 2017
Barbara Hoffert - @barbarahoffert Among LJ's many Five Best lists are two new additions: Short Stories and World Literature. Short stories made an especially strong showing this year, with numerous veteran authors of long-form and short-form fiction releasing titles and newcomer Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties chosen as a National Book Award finalist. As always, this year’s short story bests show that the world can be captured as effectively in miniature as in saga. Fiction from abroad, translated into English, broadens our horizons while delivering truths about an increasingly global culture, as in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone, about the refugee crisis. Poetry, of course, has always received best-book coverage, and this year’s list, from Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf to Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead, mirrors current social and personal upheaval while showing fresh new voices doing remarkable things in the genre today. See LJ’s Best Poetry & Literature here. |
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| Greenblatt, Palahniuk, & Newcomer Gabel | Barbara’s Picks
Good surprises to wrap up May 2018 picks. Debut novelist Aja Gabel's The Ensemble caught my eye with a look at the classical music world. Even if you don't know a string quartet from kitchen string or string theory, the lives of hard-working classical musicians are utterly relatable. Chuck Palahniuk's Adjustment Day captures the zeitgeist in edgy, elevated fashion, while Stephen Greenblatt's Tyrant takes a look at Shakespeare's power players to show how they echo today. |
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| | Not Just Beach Reads | Pop Fiction Previews
May 2018—time to start looking for all those summer beach reads. While veterans Mary Kay Andrews and Nancy Thayer give fans the sun-kissed escapism they've come to expect, beaches show up in other May fiction titles with larger purpose. Jenny Colgan's The Endless Beach takes its heroine home to Scotland, Michelle Gable's The Summer I Met Jack lands in Hyannisport, MA, for a young Jack Kennedy's putative affair, and Meg Little Reilly's Everything That Follows offers a tense end-of-summer tale with a man overboard. Plus fiction from Danielle Steel, Alison Weir, and more. |
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| From Michael Koryta to Amanda Quick | Thriller Previews
As this month's list shows, thrillers come in every flavor, from the tough-guy take in Ted Bell's Overkill and domestic suspense like Aimee's Molloy's The Perfect Mother to the dystopic tensions in Claire North's 84K, romantic thrillers like Amanda Quick's The Other Lady Vanishes, and political thrillers like newcomer Jake Tapper's The Hellfire Club, set in 1950s Washington, DC. |
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| | Essential Arts Titles, May 2018Harkness, Deborah (text) & Colleen Madden (illus.). The World of All Souls Hilburn, Robert. Paul Simon Hyden, Steven. Twilight of the Gods Itzkoff, Dave. Robin Pring, John & Rob Thomas. Visualizing The Beatles> Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. Saving Central Park VIEW THE FULL LIST |
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| From the Opium Wars to Putin’s Russia | History Previews
This month's history titles move from Stephen R. Platt's Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age to Patrick O’Donnell's The Unknowns, about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. But long-standing tensions with the Soviet Union & Russia take over with Roland Philipps's A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean, Bret Baier & Catherine Whitney's Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire, and Michael McFaul's From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Inside Story of Russia and America, by a former ambassador to Russia. |
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| Politicians, Movie Stars, & Olympians | Memoir Previews
Memoirs take us to so many different places and into so many different lives, and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Africa-to-Hollywood Blondy Baruti, kidnap victim Michelle Knight, refugee and Olympian Yusra Mardini, and more all have important stories to tell. |
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| | A Celebration of Fandom-Beloved Stories and Characters
Join Library Journal and School Library Journal for our inaugural LibraryCon Live! We’re excited to offer this day-long virtual festival for book nerds, librarians, and fans of graphic novels, sci-fi, and fantasy. Network online with other fans and explore our virtual exhibit hall where you’ll hear directly from publishers about their newest books and engage in live chats with featured authors. You’ll also learn from librarians and industry insiders on how to plan and host your own Comic Con-style event. |
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