Some books i'd Recommend
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The Gift of Valor – My brother wrote it, but this isn’t nepotism. His book is an absolute classic of war journalism. Whatever your views about the Iraq war, this book will make you feel what it’s like to fight in it. It’s the extraordinary story of Medal of Honor winner, US Marine Corporal Jason Dunham, but it’s also about what it means to fight, sacrifice, and die in war. |
I’ve blurbed the following books, and I always mean it.
These are all great contemporary novels:
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel
Tearjerker by Daniel Hayes
Last One In by Nick Kulish
Serena by Ron Rash
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
and non-fiction:
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein
Prisoner of Trebekistan by Bob Harris, author of the useful Who Hates Whom.
Freud’s Requiem by Matthew von Unwerth
The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
And some more: 3 recent novels at BN.com
Summer reading at Salon.com
