Best books of 2017 so far Newsday picks
Newsday's books editor selects standout titles through mid year. Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Strout's Anything Is Possible, Nguyen's The Refugees, Mason's Who Killed Piet Barol, Coover's Huck Out West, Sedaris' Theft by Finding, Killers of the Flower Moon, Hunger, Caught in the Revolution, Richard Nixon The Life remain top contenders with strong author, publisher, and setting details.
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Ministry of Utmost
Arundhati Roy
India
Anjum
Delhi
Tilo
Kashmir
Alfred A. Knopf
Elizabeth Strout
Lucy Barton
Amgash
Lucy
Random House
Viet Thanh Nguyen
America
Grove Press
Piet Barol
Richard Mason
Mason
South Africa
Robert Coover
Coover
Mark Twain
Huck
Missouri
Twain
W.W. Norton and Co
David Sedaris
Sedaris
Little, Brown and Co
Flower Moon
Osage
FBI
David Grant
The
Petrograd
Russia
Helen Rappaport
Rappaport
St. Petersburg
St. Martin’s
Richard Nixon
John A. Farrell
Farrell
Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Doubleday
What She Ate recounts six women through their meals
Laura Shapiro explores Eleanor Roosevelt Eva Braun Helen Gurley Brown Dorothy Wordsworth Rosa Lewis Barbara Pym and others in What She Ate Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tell Their Stories. The author links food to identity and era showing how hunger status cooking and taste reveal character and era.
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Laura Shapiro
Eleanor Roosevelt
White House
Eva Braun
Adolf Hitler
Helen Gurley Brown
Cosmopolitan
Lucrezia Borgia
Julia Child
Lidia Bastianich
Fannie Farmer
Edna Lewis
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Shapiro
Dorothy Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
Rosa Lewis
Duke Street
Barbara Pym
Roosevelt
Hitler
Brown
Gloria Steinem
Prince Charles The Passions And Paradoxes Of An Improbable Life
Biographer Sally Bedell Smith portrays Prince Charles as a shadow king in waiting whose life has been eclipsed by Diana William and Camilla. The book traces Camillas powerful impact from mistress to wife and situates Charles alongside a royal lineage under pressure and scrutiny.
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Prince Charles
Prince of Wales
England
Sally Bedell Smith
Sri Lanka
Charles
Smith
Prince William
Catherine
Prince George
Charlotte
William
Prince Harry
Diana
Princess of Wales
Duchess of Cornwall
Camilla Parker Bowles
Camilla
Kennedys
Clintons
CBS
William S. Paley
Pamela Harriman
Elizabeth the Queen
Penny Junor
the Duchess
United States
Prince
Daily Mail
Dianas
Camillas
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