Лучшие книги 2014 года по версии Publishers Weekly — 86 книг — стр. 3

Non-fiction

Kassinger stops to smell the flowers and captures their stories in the process. Ostensibly a memoir that divulges how she grafted her mind onto the world of botany, Kassinger’s enthralling read covers the evolutionary and intellectual histories of plants.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:26

Non-fiction

With a series of essays on the otherwise depressing topics of species extinction and ecosystem collapse, Kolbert delivers an engaging and entertaining account of humanity’s fraught relationship with nature and still finds reasons for optimism.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:26

Non-fiction

In what promises to be the definitive biography of Tennessee Williams, former New Yorker drama critic Lahr paints a portrait of the playwright with the same vitality and honesty that Williams brought to characters like Blanche Dubois and Maggie the Cat.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:26

Non-fiction

An illuminating biography that shows how the Booker Prize–winning novelist drew her characters not just from real life but from her own life, moving from Fitzgerald’s upbringing amid a remarkably accomplished family to her difficult adulthood.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:26

Non-fiction

McBee’s memoir sets out to answer the question, “What makes a man?” But the result is more generous, more inspiring, and more creative than the usual gender binaries. His meditations bring him a hard-won sense of self bound to inspire any reader who has struggled with internal dissonance.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:29

Non-fiction

Through the story of the Bassetts, a family from Virginia, whose Bassett Furniture Company was once the world’s largest producer of wooden furniture, Macy, a native Virginian, traces the effects of globalization on American manufacturing.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:29

Non-fiction

Journalist Nordberg, with subtle, sympathetic reportage, explores the lives of bacha posh—girls who are made over as boys so that their parents can claim the honor of having a son.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:48

Non-fiction

Osnos, the New Yorker’s former Beijing correspondent, captures how swelling individualism and the controlling political structure play an equal role in shaping the rising superpower. Profiles of artists, entrepreneurs, dissidents, and others give a firsthand quality to this sweeping panorama.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:30

Non-fiction

How did a supposedly washed-up actor-turned-politician of the right-wing fringe nearly steal the 1976 Republican presidential nomination? Perlstein’s encyclopedic chronicle of 1973–1976 examines the Nixon years and why swaths of Americans pined for a figure like Ronald Reagan.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:31

Non-fiction

Politically controversial? You betcha. Too long and dense for casual readers? Most definitely. But it’s been roundly hailed as one of the—if not the—most important economic books of the year, reframing debates about inequality and the nature of capitalism. Piketty’s scholarship has changed the conversation.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:31

Non-fiction

Forget Strunk and White’s rules; Harvard psycholinguist Pinker has created an iconoclastic writing guide that relies for its many insights on cognitive science. Every writer can profit from—and every reader can enjoy—Pinker’s suggestions.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:34

Non-fiction

With arguments that are both lucid and sensible, Pollitt debunks the myths surrounding abortion, and analyzes what abortion opponents really oppose: namely women’s growing sexual freedom and power. This groundbreaking book reframes the debate to show that, “in the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights.”

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:34

Non-fiction

In his typical hilarious writing style, novelist Shteyngart traces his journey from his birth in Leningrad and his decision to become a writer at age five to his immigration to America and his family’s settling in New York City in 1979.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:34

Non-fiction

Thorpe traces the lives of three women in the Indiana National Guard who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, highlighting how profoundly military service changed their lives and the lives of their families. Twelve years in the making, this visceral narrative shows the disconnect between the civilian population and the veterans, and how the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is primarily shouldered by the poor.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:37

Non-fiction

In recent years, political memoirs—an increasingly popular subgenre in 2014—seem to have taken a forward-looking turn, more geared toward ensuring a career than reflecting on it. Freshman senator Warren’s book stays humbly rooted in her past, offering a frank and lively account of how she became the banking and finance industry’s fiercest nemesis.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:39

Mystery/Thriller

In the process of recreating the distinctive narrative voice of Raymond Chandler’s world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe, Black (aka John Banville) elevates this crime novel beyond mere thoughtful homage, injecting emotion into his wounded lead.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:54

Mystery/Thriller

Lt. Col. Quentin Margont investigates a royalist plot to undermine the defenses of Paris as the allied forces advance on the city in 1814 in Cabasson’s third Napoleonic Murders whodunit. The intricate storytelling and sophisticated character development make this one of the best historical mysteries of recent years.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:56

Mystery/Thriller

Insider knowledge of politics paired with amazing state-of-the-art technical details fuels this realistic action thriller. A counterterrorism expert who has served under U.S. presidents from Reagan to George W. Bush, Clarke sets the standard by which the subgenre will be measured.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:56

Mystery/Thriller

Hochgatterer, a child psychiatrist based in Vienna, makes his U.S. debut with this suspenseful and insightful thriller in which a child psychiatrist treats a little girl traumatized by the discovery of her grandfather’s faceless corpse in the snow outside a fairy tale Austrian town.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:58

Mystery/Thriller

In her debut, Hodgson, editor-in-chief of Little, Brown U.K., conjures up scenes of Dickensian squalor and marries them to a crackerjack plot. Tom Hawkins, the 25-year-old wastrel son of an Anglican minister, looks into a suspicious hanging death in a hellish London debtors’ prison in 1727.

Seterwind 7 декабря 2014 г., 05:59