Book recommendation thread! Some I read for the first time this year and really enjoyed…
First off, Brenda Wineapple’s THE IMPEACHERS was a fascinating close look at Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Rich with detail and a bona fide page-turner.
First off, Brenda Wineapple’s THE IMPEACHERS was a fascinating close look at Andrew Johnson's impeachment. Rich with detail and a bona fide page-turner.
THE COWSHED by Ji Xianlin and CHINA UNDER MAO by Andrew Walder. Micro and macro looks at the Cultural Revolution. Get past facile analogies, learn about the reality. (First is a vivid personal tale, second is an academic accounting)
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X and Audre Lorde’s ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME both use autobiography to make deeply compelling critiques of society. They also don’t shy away from the complications real life holds for ideology.
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY by Liu Cixin. Sci-fi with idea piled atop idea. Foregrounds the utter weirdness of much of physics and goes wild with it. Starts as a mystery about a video game, ends as a centuries-spanning interstellar epic
What happened when American radicals really did start setting off bombs and hijacking planes? Bryan Burrough’s DAYS OF RAGE and Brendan Koerner’s THE SKIES BELONG TO US compellingly tell those early ‘70s stories.
TRUST EXERCISE by Susan Choi. Tricky, tricky. I came to similar conclusions as @constancegrady about the ending.
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