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‘Red Comet’: Heather Clark’s new biography of the poet Sylvia Plath is daring, meticulously researched and unexpectedly riveting.

‘Intimacies’: Katie Kitamura’s novel follows an interpreter at The Hague who is dealing with loss, an uncertain relationship and an insecure world.

‘On Juneteenth’: Annette Gordon-Reed explores the racial and social complexities of Texas, her home state, weaving history and memoir.

‘How Beautiful We Were’: Imbolo Mbue’s second novel is a tale of a casually sociopathic corporation and the people whose lives it steamrolls.

It really is the Great American Novel, beginning on the East Coast and moving to the West, spanning America’s rise from an agricultural nation to an industrial powerhouse.Įditors at The Times Book Review selected the best fiction and nonfiction titles of the year. My son, who is a voracious reader, had told me how much he liked John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden.” I tried it and was captivated.

I didn’t want it to end.Īre there any classic novels that you only recently read for the first time? “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” by Michael Chabon. Auden’s “Collected Poems.” They’re all wonderfully written, and I can put any of them down after 15 minutes, sated and ready for bed. Right now, I have three: a collection of columns by the great journalist Walter Lippmann, from the period around World War I (edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) Dean Acheson’s “Sketches From Life of Men I Have Known,” the former secretary of state’s portraits of some of his contemporaries and W. So I keep books there that I can read in small bites. I have insomnia and reading in bed makes it harder to get a good night’s sleep. The CNN host, whose new book is “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World,” includes Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” on the list: “Still the best book ever written about this country.”