September 2014’s Best Nonfiction Books: 7 Must-Read Titles to Shake Up Your All-Fiction Diet Leslie Jamison. Roxane Gay. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Astra Taylor. Need I continue? 2014 has been very good to those with a penchant for nonfiction — and for those of us without, very good at luring us in. I’ll admit that I fall into the latter camp. So, nonfiction, the spotlight’s all yours: There’s a deep look into fashion; a memoir on a gender transition that’ll hit you right in the gut; a curiously hilarious tale of hours passed in a mortuary; a couple of titles for the side of you that never left college; a book that’ll feed your fiery feminist; and, of course, Lena. When you’re done, come see our picks for September’s best fiction and best YA, too. Women In Clothes by Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, and 639 Others (Blue Rider Press; Sept. 4) Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (City Lights; Sept. 9) “Being human means being at the mercy of others,” Thomas Page McBee points out in Man Alive. Image: elbokkie/flickr
100 Best Novels « Modern Library ULYSSES by James Joyce Written as an homage to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Ulysses follows its hero, Leopold Bloom, through the streets of Dublin. Overflowing with puns, references to classical literature, and stream-of-consciousness writing, this is a complex, multilayered novel about one day in the life of an ordinary man. Initially banned in the United States but overturned by a legal challenge by Random House’s Bennett Cerf, Ulysses was called “a memorable catastrophe” (Virginia Woolf), “a book to which we are all indebted” (T. S. Click here to read more about ULYSSES THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Set in the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby tells the story of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his decadent parties, and his love for the alluring Daisy Buchanan. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce Published in 1916, James Joyce’s semiautobiographical tale of his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov U.S.A. In E.
London Review of Books · 21 August 2014 The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time 100 great nonfiction books: a list of must-read nonfiction books, essay collections, and classic journalism Essay Collections The New Kings of Nonfiction by Ira Glass A bulletproof collection of the best narrative nonfiction from the late 90s and early 00s. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace Between them, these collections cover all of DFW's best nonfiction. The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Spanning HST's golden age, includes journalism from National Observer, Rolling Stone and Scanlan's. Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff "The Indignities of Coach, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Endless Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems" What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell A collection of Gladwell's best New Yorker Essays. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe Mythologies by Roland Barthes Meditations on everything from milk and striptease to toys and wrestling. Essays by E. G.K.
The 100 greatest novels of all time: The list | Books | The Observer 1. Don Quixote Miguel De CervantesThe story of the gentle knight and his servant Sancho Panza has entranced readers for centuries. • Harold Bloom on Don Quixote – the first modern novel 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68 On the Road Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation bible.• Read more about Kerouac and his coterie in the Beats week special• David Mills' response to Beats Week 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Who did we miss? So, are you congratulating yourself on having read everything on our list or screwing the newspaper up into a ball and aiming it at the nearest bin?
The Online Books Page untitled The 200 Greatest Adventure Novels of All Time What follows is a list of two hundred of my favorite adventure novels published before the Eighties (1984–93). They’re organized not qualitatively — that would be impossible — but chronologically. I’ve also listed another two hundred fifty second-tier favorite adventures, which you can peruse via the following posts: Best 19th Century Adventure (1805–1903) | Best Nineteen-Oughts Adventure (1904–13) | Best Nineteen-Teens Adventure (1914–23) | Best Twenties Adventure (1924–33) | Best Thirties Adventure (1934–43) | Best Forties Adventure (1944–53) | Best Fifties Adventure (1954–63) | Best Sixties Adventure (1964–73) | Best Seventies Adventure (1974–83). Enjoy! Why does my Top Adventures List project stop in 1983? In chronological order: 1814. 1820. 1844. 1851. 1870. 1883. 1885. 1887. 1894. 1897. 1901. 1904. 1905. 1908. 1910. 1912. 1912.
Penguin Classics Canada Top 25 Best Fantasy Books This one is full to the brim with gritty, amoral, cynical dark humor. A different sort of fantasy, but one that's extremely refreshing, disturbing, and entertaining -- one of the best fantasy reads to come out the past couple years. Even as we near 2015, The Prince of Thorns still stands tall among other strong fantasy books. For a dark, gritty, anti-hero driven fantasy, I felt strong Abercrombie vibes. There's a strong influence from A Game of Thrones -- and if you've ever read KJ Parker's The Engineer trilogy, you'll see some similarities in the tone and style of world. The setting of the world is interesting too, a sort of post-apocalypse world gone to hell that sparks similarities to Jack Vance's Dying Earth world. This is the brutal story of Prince Jorg, a teenage princeling who abandoned his father's castle after witnessing the murder of his mother and brother. The narration is first person and well done at that -- I haven't been so entertained by first person narration in ages.
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