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The best fiction I
read in 2017
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Far and away the best
writing of any book I read in 2017. Based on this book alone, the author's Nobel Prize is well-deserved.
The President’s Hat
by Antoine Laurain (translated from the French
by Gallic Books).
A Moveable Feast,
by Ernest Hemingway.
Tortilla Flat, by
John Steinbeck.
Standard Deviation,
by Katherine Heiny.
Fahrenheit 451, by
Ray Bradbury.
The best
non-fiction I read in 2017
Gender Revolution:
Special Issue, National Geographic magazine, January 2017.
On Tyranny: Twenty
Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by Timothy Snyder.
I read it twice in 2017.
Born a Crime: Stories
from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah.
I really enjoyed this fascinating
memoir.
The Sense of Style:
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by
Steven Pinker.
Tears We Cannot Stop:
A Sermon to White America, by Michael Eric Dyson.
This was a difficult read because of the subject
matter. Nevertheless, I recommend it to
white American Christians.
How about you? Do you
have any favorites that you have read recently? Have you ever used a Little Free Library?
My book club read and LOVED The President's Hat. I'd read more by him.
ReplyDeleteI read remains of the day years ago and loved it. Have you seen the movie?
ReplyDeleteMost of what I read in 2017 was fairly light and I think my favorites were the books by Margery Sharp, particularly Sun in Scorpio and The Nutmeg Tree.
We have a Little Free Library just down the street (2 blocks, as compared to the actual public library 9/10 of a mile up the road) and it is stuffed full of books. I do have a borrow, read, and donate relationship with the LFL.
ReplyDeleteMy brain is often compared (by me) to a colander, so while I'd love to tell you all about my 2017 reading, I can't come up with a single book right now despite being a member of a book group and having a reading habit on my own. *sigh*