Favorite books of 2017 mix history and fiction
A compact year end column selects nine works across fiction and non fiction. Joan Silber’s Improvement, Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser, Golden Hill by Francis Spufford and Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann anchor a list that includes The Future Is History by Masha Gessen and Old authors like Elizabeth Strout and Robert Lowell feature in compact book notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
David
Reyna
Rikers
Masha
Gessen
Riverhead
United
Golden Hill
New York
Francis
de Spufford
Scribner
Manhattan
Waco Survivor's Story Reissued After 25 Years
The book by avid Thibodeau offers a survivor's view of the Waco siege led by David Koresh, detailing the raid that began in February and ended with a deadly fire in April. A revised edition accompanies a January mini series on Paramount Network, with Thibodeau reflecting on law enforcement, negotiations, and Koresh's doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avid Thibodeau
Waco
Texas
Thibodeau
Paramount Network
David Koresh
Koresh
FBI
ATF
Leon Whiteson
Read more books in 2018 by Jessica Roy
Jessica Roy offers practical tips to read more in the new year. She shares personal goals, library and e reader strategies, holds lists, and using Overdrive to access e books. She suggests setting a 2018 goal and tracking progress with Goodreads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodreads
L.A. Public
Roxane Gay
Mohsin Hamid
Lincoln
George Saunders
Lindy West
Artemis
Andy Weir
Amazon
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joan Silber
Vladimir Putin
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
Metropolitan
The
Flower Moon
Luvy Daalluil
Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Illinois
Politics and History
Oklahoma
Republic
United States
Richard White
Oxford University Press
White
University of Washington
Stanford
Villilevy Isay
Jamison
Knopf
Robert Lowell
America
Lowell
Churchill and Orwell
Thomas Ricks
Penguin Press
Ricks
Elizabeth Strout
Ns Citi
He Osage
Francis Spufford
Republi
Riguard
Wan Hen
Ingal Wilder
Jessica Roy
Los Angeles Times
Project Gutenberg
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