30 Books

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown) Rebecca Donner’s

The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager (W.W. Norton) “There is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known,” this Biblical

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith (Little, Brown) In How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith visits and probes

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit (Viking) Orwell’s Roses is not, Rebecca Solnit tells us, a biography. It is, she writes, “a series of forays from one starting point, that gesture

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury) Sam Quinones follows up Dreamland, his NBCC-award winning account

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday) Most of the many books and articles written about America’s opioid crisis focus on its

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Whitehead has proven himself a master many times over in a variety of genres, recently earning back-to-back Pulitzers.  It’s Harlem Shuffle, his take on

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper) Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois is a voluminous ancestral story, vast in scope,

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall (Custom House) As we enter the seemingly endless third year of our global pandemic, the idea that great art can come from unspeakable loss eases the

Second Place by Rachel Cusk (FSG) Amid an ongoing pandemic and an unrelentingly polarized citizenry, basing a novel on a residency gone awry might seem an odd choice as a