May 2016, updated in November 2016, April 2017, September 2019
CULTURE
THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH by Tom Wolfe Little, Brown. The novelist argues that, contrary to the theories of Noam Chomsky, there is no evolutionary explanation for language.
FOOTNOTES FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKSTORES
by Bob Eckstein (Clarkson Potter) Seventy-five cherished bookstores from around the world are celebrated in anecdotes, accompanied by evocative paintings by the New Yorker magazine cartoonist.
PRIMATES OF PARK AVENUE by Wednesday Martin (Simon & Schuster) A memoir of life among the wealthy women of the Upper East Side, in the satirical guise of an anthropological study.
SPEAKING AMERICAN by Josh Katz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The creator of the New York Times dialect quiz provides a guide to how words are pronounced in different parts of the country.
UNSINKABLE by Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway (Morrow/HarperCollins) A second memoir by the actress, singer and dancer presents stories about her show-business friends, her man and money troubles, and her children.
HALLELUJAH ANYWAY by Anne Lamott (Riverhead) The importance of mercy in our lives.
THE TRUE JESUS by David Limbaugh (Regnery) The four Gospel stories are combined into a unified account.
BUSINESS
AN AMERICAN SICKNESS by Elisabeth Rosenthal (Penguin Press)
How health care became a highly profitable business.
THE UPSIDE OF INEQUALITY by Edward Conard (Portfolio/Penguin)
A former managing director at Bain Capital argues that the concern about inequality is misguided and will slow growth.
TOGETHER IS BETTER by Simon Sinek (Portfolio/Penguin) A fable about change by the popular TED talker stresses the importance of relationships and the need to ask for help; illustrated by Ethan M. Aldridge.
THE GREAT EQUALIZER by David M. Smick (PublicAffairs)
A call for economic policies that will promote economic growth by encouraging Main Street capitalism (small businesses and start-ups) rather than Wall Street capitalism.
RADICAL CANDOR by Kim Scott (St. Martin's)
EYES WIDE OPEN by Isaac Lidsky (TarcherPerigee)
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
A BURGLAR'S GUIDE TO THE CITY, by Geoff Manaugh. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) A dissection of architectural blueprints, surveillance routines and street routes with the eyes (and often real-life expertise) of those who would seek to invade and escape from any building: scaling up walls, down elevator shafts, past blind spots, through tunnels and across rooftops. Interviews with bank robbers, law enforcement and private security agents are included.
DREAMLAND, by Sam Quinones. (Bloomsbury Press.) The rise and socioeconomic and geographic penetration of opiate and heroin use across the country.
MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams (Simon & Schuster) A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice.
MURDER IN THE BAYOU by Ethan Brown (Scribner) An investigation into the murders of eight women between 2005 and 2009 exposes the murky underworld of a troubled Louisiana parish.
EDUCATION
SUBSTITUTE by Nicholson Baker (Blue Rider) A classroom-level look at the American public school system by a best-selling author who briefly became a substitute teacher in rural Maine.
THE GIFT OF FAILURE by Jessica Lahey (Harper) The value of disappointment, frustration and life's inevitable hurdles that provide opportunities for resilience, resourcefulness and self-reliance.
HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT by Julie Lythcott-Haims (St. Martin's Griffin)
How to foster healthy self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem.
IN A DIFFERENT KEY by John Donvan and Caren Zucker (Crown/Archetype) The story of autism.
ESPIONAGE
THE LAST GOODNIGHT by Howard Blum (Harper) A biography of Betsy Pack, the American debutante who became an Allied spy during World War II.
PLAYING TO THE EDGE by Michael V. Hayden (Penguin Press) A former C.I.A. director defends his policies.
LIAR, TEMPTRESS, SOLDIER, SPY by Karen Abbott (Harper Perennial) Four courageous women who were undercover during the Civil War.
ROGUE HEROES by Ben Macintyre (Crown) The history of the SAS, Britain's secret special forces unit that sabotaged the Nazis and changed the nature of war.
100 DEADLY SKILLS by Clint Emerson (Touchstone) The SEAL Operative's guide to eluding pursuit, capture and all manner of unseen danger.
THE DEVIL'S CHESSBOARD by David Talbot (Harper) Allen Dulles, the CIA and the rise of America's secret governments.
THE PIGEON TUNNEL by John le Carré (Viking) A memoir by the great spy novelist.
EXPEDITIONS
THE 37TH PARALLEL by Ben Mezrich (Atria) A road trip along the "UFO Highway," a 3,000 mile stretch of interstate highway near the Colorado and New Mexico border where some people have claimed to see paranormal events.
THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by Douglas Preston (Grand Central) A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.
SCIENCE
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES by Peter Wohlleben Greystone
A forester presents scientific research on the way trees interact with one another. A best seller in Germany.
WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott Princeton University Press
HOW TO READ WATER by Tristan Gooley The Experiment
SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON PHYSICS by Carlo Rovelli Riverhead
THE INVENTION OF NATURE by Andrea Wulf Vintage
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) How the globalization, climate change and the accelerating pace of technology are reshaping the world, and what we can do about it.
HISTORY
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY by Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney (Morrow/HarperCollins) Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
KILLING THE RISING SUN by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard Holt
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.
ON TYRANNY by Timothy Snyder Tim Duggan
Twenty lessons from the 20th century about the course of tyranny.
TRAVEL
HUMANS OF NEW YORK: STORIES by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin's)
More photographs, this time accompanied by interviews, from the creator of the blog and the book “Humans of New York.”
SULLY by Chesley B. Sullenberger III with Jeffrey Zaslow (Morrow/HarperCollins) A memoir by the pilot who made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009. Originally published as “Highest Duty” in 2009. The basis for the 2016 movie.
LION by Saroo Brierley (NAL) The author was lost on a train in India at age 5, then adopted by a couple in Australia; he searched for and found his birth family as an adult. Originally published in 2014 as “A Long Way Home” and the basis for the 2016 movie.
NONSTOP METROPOLIS by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (University of California) Essays and 26 imaginative maps celebrate New York City.
ISBN: | 978-0753555620, 075355562X |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Virgin Books |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 0-316-01792-2, 9780316017923 |
Год издания: | 2008 |
Издательство: | Little, Brown and Company |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-5-9614-1001-3 |
Год издания: | 2009 |
Издательство: | Альпина Бизнес Букс, Юнайтед Пресс |
Язык: | Русский |
ISBN: | 0375725601, 9780375725609 |
Год издания: | 2004 |
Издательство: | Vintage Books |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 006218363X, 9780062183637 |
Год издания: | 2013 |
Издательство: | Harper |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-0812988543 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Random House Inc |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 1101902760, 9781101902769 |
Год издания: | 2016 |
Издательство: | Crown |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-0385538732 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Doubleday |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-1101907290 |
Год издания: | 2016 |
Издательство: | Convergent Books |
ISBN: | 978-0297870913 |
Год издания: | 2013 |
Издательство: | W&N |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-0544668256 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 9781444776751 |
Год издания: | 2013 |
Издательство: | Random House |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-5-91743-045-4 |
Год издания: | 2014 |
Издательство: | Рама Паблишинг |
Серия: | Kai & Sunny |
Язык: | Русский |
ISBN: | 978-0385539005 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Doubleday Books |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-1408861929 |
Год издания: | 2014 |
Издательство: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-0307408860 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Crown Publishing Group |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-5-17-093435-5 |
Год издания: | 2016 |
Издательство: | Corpus |
Язык: | Русский |
ISBN: | 0385486804, 9780385486804 |
Год издания: | 1997 |
Издательство: | Anchor, Anchor Books |
Язык: | Английский |
ISBN: | 978-1594203473 |
Год издания: | 2015 |
Издательство: | Penguin Press |
Язык: | Английский |