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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?
3 comments:
My book club read and LOVED The President's Hat. I'd read more by him.
I read remains of the day years ago and loved it. Have you seen the movie?
Most 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.
My 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*
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