Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.
September 29:
Book Marks:
Magdalena: River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia
Entertainment Weekly:
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
NPR:
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life by Jonathan Alter
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
NYT:
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S Reynolds
September 22:
Book Marks:
Yours for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love & War by Martha Gellhorn
Buzzfeed:
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Entertainment Weekly:
Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Library Reads:
Tools of Engagement by Tessa Bailey
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
NPR:
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy by Elijah Cummings and James Dale
Vox:
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
Authors on Air:
NPR:
How To Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver
September 15:
BuzzFeed:
NPR:
The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw
NYT:
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
People:
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
Everything Beautiful in Its Time Seasons of Love and Loss by Jenna Bush Hager
USA Today:
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
The Washington Post:
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
Authors on Air:
NPR’s Morning Edition:
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday:
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
PBS NewsHour:
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
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September 8:
NPR:
Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale
New York Times:
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Why I Don’t Write: And Other Stories by Susan Minot
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
People:
What are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Washington Post:
September 1:
Bookmarks:
Twilight of the Gods War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W Toll
Entertainment Weekly:
NYT:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
A Girl is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumb
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato
The Washington Post:
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Authors on Air:
NPR:
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
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