Thank you for the upload!🙏❤️ for anyone interested: 1. An immense world - Ed Yong 2. Trust - Hernan Diaz 3. Stay True - Hua Hsu 4. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan 5. Strangers to ourselves - Rachel Aviv 6. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver 7. Under the skin - Linda Villarosa 8. The Furrows - Namwali Serpell 9. We don’t know ourselves - Fintan O’Toole 10. Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett
the only thing better then reading one of these books is giving it away, only to buy another. i did with Trust and am on that journey in our Immense World. a heart felt thanks to the other writers and the ecosystems that produced them, their work, and others yet to be written and read.
Re: Under the Skin. I liked when she said the author doesn't appreciate the term mental illness. It's a physical illness like any other, involving the brain. When the separate classification, "mental illness" no longer exists then the stigma may truly fade. In doing so, the subpar care for folks with these challenges, such as myself with bipolar, can improve.
As a rabid nonfiction bibliophile, I am always curious how reading books you do not buy yourself, but are part of your job, affect how you view a book, versus the average person who buys a book with their own hard earned money. Personally, I know spending my own money on books encompasses everything from how I am feeling the day I buy a book, a curiosity I may have about a given subject, even the weather. Bought and highly recommend Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa. And Ed Young's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us With six feet of snow here in our area of the California Sierra, I have been reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor,, Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes (the author was Oliver Sacks partner), and The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos.
There are really many more if you have Noticed how many are consumed in a year. I’ve probably read 20-100 books and I also read books from time past. Standing the test of time are writers Who lived lives about a place in an environment that could bring them into full word authenticity. I look for a Stimulus to do my own writing.
It’s really arrogant to think that out of all books published in a year that a group of people can pick ten and call them the best. They have to read thousands of other books to narrow down that number. Any Best of is usually a very biased list.
Haven't they read thousands of books already and how are you gonna call any book best? It's the readers like them and us who decided what books are best. In the end only few win.
I disagree, they are reading lots of books looking for the same things readers are looking for, gems, important books you can’t stop thinking about. We readers do this same thing, perhaps we only read in our favorite genres but we look for gems and books we can’t forget. Readers know that of the thousands of books published most are formulated, poorly edited, lazily written. I appreciate what they do, listen to how they describe the process, this is not a random process it’s hard work.
It’s understood and stated that these are their picks, as a group. It’s intended to suggest. Not dictate. Are you an author who’s book hasn’t gotten this attention?
Aww too bad NYT overlooked “ Horse” by Geraldine Brooks… a master storyteller. Her work is more than impressive… it’s important, significant and scholarly as well. Brooks teaches through her storytelling.
Here is an interesting idea for a book. Write a non-fiction book that incorporates subjective and objective thoughts. The book has subjective ideas on the left side of the page and objective thoughts on the right, or vice versa. Choose any topic, hot or cold; modern, post modern, and or post-post modern.
Nice racial matching between the authors and the reviewers who get to talk about their work. Has to be intentional. Maybe people have pointed out about this in the past, and you want to be on the safe-side.
Must say I don’t like the second introducer on the podium much: From when he audibly slammed down his papers, along the rather boring speech, he seems much entitled, and his tone of delivery is more of a disgruntled boss than a literary person. I think he must have been angered right before that speech…
There are really many more if you have Noticed how many are consumed in a year. I’ve probably read 20-100 books and I also read books from time past. Standing the test of time are writers Who lived lives about a place in an environment that could bring them into full word authenticity. I look for a Stimulus to do my own writing.
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Thank you for the upload!🙏❤️ for anyone interested:
1. An immense world - Ed Yong
2. Trust - Hernan Diaz
3. Stay True - Hua Hsu
4. The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
5. Strangers to ourselves - Rachel Aviv
6. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
7. Under the skin - Linda Villarosa
8. The Furrows - Namwali Serpell
9. We don’t know ourselves - Fintan O’Toole
10. Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett
the only thing better then reading one of these books is giving it away, only to buy another. i did with Trust and am on that journey in our Immense World. a heart felt thanks to the other writers and the ecosystems that produced them, their work, and others yet to be written and read.
@@ryankiefer1111 I agree! I am starting it off with “Stay True”, but I can’t wait to read “Trust”.
MVP
Thank you so much for sharing the list with us!! ❤
An Immense World… Yes, Yes, Yes!
1) 11:40 NON-FICTION - An Immense World (Ed Yong)
2) 16:36 FICTION - Trust (Hernan Diaz)
3) 20:35 NON-FICTION - Stay True (Hua Hsu)
4) 27:20 FICTION - The Candy House (Jennifer Egan)
5) 31:20 NON-FICTION - Stranger To Ourselves (Rachel Aviv)
6) 35:09 FICTION - Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
7) 39:30 NON-FICTION - Under The Skin (Linda Villarosa)
8) 42:10 FICTION - The Furrows (Namwali Serpell)
9) 46:50 NON-FICTION - We Don't Know Ourselves (Fintan O'Toole)
10) 50:05 FICTION - Checkout 19 (Claire-Louise Bennett)
Thanks I looked for it .
Thank you.
Thank you 🙏
This is my favorite podcast. I hope they bring it back soon. I do miss Pamela Paul. She’s an outstanding interviewer.
Re: Under the Skin. I liked when she said the author doesn't appreciate the term mental illness. It's a physical illness like any other, involving the brain. When the separate classification, "mental illness" no longer exists then the stigma may truly fade. In doing so, the subpar care for folks with these challenges, such as myself with bipolar, can improve.
The smell of newly printed books, nothing can replace them.
Thank you. I love hearing reviews of books I'm not familiar with. And thanks for showing the Covers of each book. 😊
For those of us who are visually motivated, the covers are a gift in comparison of books. 👍
I have read and enjoyed all five novels. They are terrific. Thanks
I loved the reviews. I just wish the volume had been louder. I couldn't hear it too well.
As a rabid nonfiction bibliophile, I am always curious how reading books you do not buy yourself, but are part of your job, affect how you view a book, versus the average person who buys a book with their own hard earned money.
Personally, I know spending my own money on books encompasses everything from how I am feeling the day I buy a book, a curiosity I may have about a given subject, even the weather.
Bought and highly recommend Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa. And Ed Young's An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
With six feet of snow here in our area of the California Sierra, I have been reading Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor,, Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes (the author was Oliver Sacks partner), and The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization by Roland Ennos.
Wow... simultaneously reading multiple books !!
Thank you for doing this - I appreciate you!
thanks for recommendations! so much should be read !
Awesome list of books exceptional summaries
I’m loving “Demon Copperhead.”
There are really many more if you have
Noticed how many are consumed in a year. I’ve probably read 20-100 books
and I also read books from time past.
Standing the test of time are writers
Who lived lives about a place in an environment that could bring them into full word authenticity. I look for a
Stimulus to do my own writing.
I’m enjoying this very much
Wow got really interested about the first one. An immense world. I would've name it "Aliens in our own world" :p
Where's Lisa Lucas or Kiese Laymon. Like
Go get your buckets. -point forward podcast.
Like really get it.
This list is so U.S.-centric
is a book on one of the many religious (over 2000) for profit Corporations... fiction or non fiction?
This video is amazing! You are incredible! You have to check out this book called
CONQUEROR MINDSET: CONQUER THE MONSTER
are these book available on Kindle or audio books?
other people are suggesting Demon Copperfield, must be great
💛
Utterly delicious...
It’s really arrogant to think that out of all books published in a year that a group of people can pick ten and call them the best. They have to read thousands of other books to narrow down that number. Any Best of is usually a very biased list.
Haven't they read thousands of books already and how are you gonna call any book best? It's the readers like them and us who decided what books are best. In the end only few win.
I disagree, they are reading lots of books looking for the same things readers are looking for, gems, important books you can’t stop thinking about. We readers do this same thing, perhaps we only read in our favorite genres but we look for gems and books we can’t forget. Readers know that of the thousands of books published most are formulated, poorly edited, lazily written. I appreciate what they do, listen to how they describe the process, this is not a random process it’s hard work.
It’s understood and stated that these are their picks, as a group. It’s intended to suggest. Not dictate. Are you an author who’s book hasn’t gotten this attention?
It's the best to THEM. You can take it or leave it
Often wonder how not having to spend ones own hard earned money on a book, affects how you view the book as a paid reviewer with the NYTimes..
this could have been an email
Who comprises your "books team", please?
Aww too bad NYT overlooked “ Horse” by Geraldine Brooks… a master storyteller. Her work is more than impressive… it’s important, significant and scholarly as well. Brooks teaches through her storytelling.
No one will tell you this. TH-cam: Joseph Smith, horror mansion.
This would have been great if it was short and snappy - 1 hour 😩
I thought it WAS short and snappy😂
Belfast, with Dinosaurs, 1979
No YA or scifi, fantasy?😢
Ok, I’m interested but it’s a full minute in and she’s still talking blah blah blah blah
Do you know what a blog is?
All subjective
Duh. That's the nature of any list. Cite an "objective" list LOL
Just as any list of books
Here is an interesting idea for a book. Write a non-fiction book that incorporates subjective and objective thoughts. The book has subjective ideas on the left side of the page and objective thoughts on the right, or vice versa. Choose any topic, hot or cold; modern, post modern, and or post-post modern.
@@Bookspine5 it seems like a waste of paper to only write a book using the left pages!
English has come far when a moderator bills their literary event as "super exciting".
Please please no more aglosaxons books.... franch germans italians spanish have fantastic books
Only one of the list is on my shelf. Most of these are a hard no for me.
How come there wasn’t a single romance book on the list ?
With all due respect i know longer trust the nyt on any score. Goodbye
Nice racial matching between the authors and the reviewers who get to talk about their work. Has to be intentional. Maybe people have pointed out about this in the past, and you want to be on the safe-side.
If the New York Times likes it, it’s probably a lot of pretentious claptrap.
Why don’t they just do it and quit talking about extraneous stuff.
Sounds like you're not a reader, and if you are, it's not having a positive effect on you yet.
So, no Captain America? How about Beavis & Butthead?
you gave away too much in the stories
Must say I don’t like the second introducer on the podium much: From when he audibly slammed down his papers, along the rather boring speech, he seems much entitled, and his tone of delivery is more of a disgruntled boss than a literary person. I think he must have been angered right before that speech…
Is there a "non-woke" version of this list......???
Non-woke is so last year.
No.
You want to stay asleep? Okay... That's called death.
Haha - right-wingers are really infatuated with their invention of that four-letter word.
People consider education “woke” so if there was a “non woke” list I doubt it would be made up of books
They are so out of touch with the actual reading community, it’s shocking! Come down from your ivory tower and mingle amongst the real readers!
I’m sorry but these books are usually terrible. Not my choice, I wouldn’t buy most of them.
Boring books for equally boring woke people. 😂
There are really many more if you have
Noticed how many are consumed in a year. I’ve probably read 20-100 books
and I also read books from time past.
Standing the test of time are writers
Who lived lives about a place in an environment that could bring them into full word authenticity. I look for a
Stimulus to do my own writing.