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1 month ago | 
audible.com | Kat Johnson |Lisa Jewell |Ian McEwan |Alice Feeney
You can’t always trust an unreliable narrator—it’s right there in the name. But how appealing is a predictable quality like trustworthiness, anyway, compared to the myriad talents of these fanciful fabricators? Unreliable narrators keep us guessing, their true intentions and seemingly intimate accounts artfully arranged to reveal only what and when they choose to.
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1 month ago | 
barnesandnoble.com | Clare Hall |Isabelle McConville |Ian McEwan
B&N Reads, BN Book Club, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Interviews, New Releases, We Recommend Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter A marriage shrouded in secrets and a town pulsing with tension, this is a love story unlike any other. Both passionate and propulsive, Broken Country is a poignant tale of love, loss, guilt and grief.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Martin Amis |Ian McEwan
With its gripping mix of seduction and strategic betrayal, BBC One’s The Traitors has viewers hooked around the world. Perhaps you’re drawn to the suspense of the round table, the camaraderie of the missions, or the merciless individuals who will stop at nothing to get ahead. But who says the fun has to end there? This intoxicating brand of high-stakes drama isn’t confined to the screen – it pulses through the pages of many books, too, including plenty of those in the Booker Library.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
dandelionchandelier.com | Lara Vapnyar |Ian McEwan |Brit Bennett |Pamela Thomas-Graham
We’re always looking for our next great read – so what are the best books to read that will make us feel like November? Here’s our take on the perfect books to read that capture the mood and the autumn feels of the month of November. These are our top picks of not just what to read this November – they’re perfect to read any November. recommended reads for the month of NovemberSo many books, so little time! Reading can be one of life’s sweetest luxuries.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | A.S. Byatt |Sarah Waters |Sally Rooney |Ian McEwan
As a genre, romance can get a bad rap. Often dismissed as fluff or – worse! – smut, it suffers from the hangover of bodice-rippers and swoon-worthy covers of yesteryear that promised bored housewives happily-ever-afters. But recently, romantic fiction and erotica have had a long-overdue makeover, and sales have skyrocketed. US print sales more than doubled between 2020 and 2023, while in the UK, they surged by 110%, marking their highest figure in a decade, according to Nielsen BookData.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
wrbh.org | Ian McEwan |John Hersey |Raymond Benson |Ursula K. LeGuin
Tuesday, March 12th @ Southeastern LA | 6:00pm First Pitch | 5:45pm Pregame Friday, March 15th VS Pepperdine | 6:30pm First Pitch | 6:15pm Pregame Saturday, March 16th VS Pepperdine | 2:00pm First Pitch | 1:45pm Pregame Sunday, March 17th VS Pepperdine | 1:00pm First Pitch | 12:45pm Pregame Monday March 11th VS TEMPLE | 8:00pm Tip-Off | 7:40pm Pregame Best Selling Non-Fiction: Ending Tuesday…THE ICEPICK SURGEON: MURDER, FRAUD, SABOTAGE, PIRACY, AND OTHER DASTARDLY DEEDS PERPETRATED IN THE...
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ian McEwan |Hilary Mantel |Rachel Kushner |Nadifa Mohamed
What exactly is an anti-hero? While the term, which dates back to the early 18th century, has always been quite loosely defined, it is often used to describe protagonists who defy conventional heroic traits, such as courage, integrity or compassion. Instead, antiheroes are often deeply flawed characters, with questionable values, a skewed moral compass and an unreliable point of view. Although they’re not without their attractions. One notable example is the villainous Joker from DC comics.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Ian McEwan |Lois A. Duncan |Jessica Knoll |Andrew Boryga
We all have one—that memory of something done or said with the absolute confidence of youth that makes our toes curl to recall. We think about it years later, in bed at night or on long drives or errantly in the shower and wish, cheeks somehow still flaming, that there was some way to take it back. I myself have an entire collection, a hideous slideshow of my awkward phase, which stretched from ages 12-32. It’s good in some ways—to be humbled, to remember that it’s actually quite hard being young.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
bethfelkerjones.substack.com | Ian McEwan |Kazuo Ishiguro |Tess Gunty |Beth Jones
Fellow Pilgrims,I wasn’t over the moon about the recent New York Times list of the 100 best books of the century. Too many repeated authors (surely once is enough to appear on a list like this), too many things with literary buzz that nobody actually enjoyed. (If you’re behind a NYT paywall, here’s the list, rearranged, at Goodreads). But I do love books and book recommendations. I love to know who loves what books and why.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Sarah Hall |William Trevor |Ian McEwan
From the nostalgia of the British seaside to distant, sun-soaked landscapes, discover the Booker Prizes team’s handpicked recommendations to add to your summer reading list Publication date and time: Published July 1, 2024Two women arrive at a Spanish village, bordered by the glittering Mediterranean Sea on one side and the arid desert on the other.
